Didier Kryn <kryn@???> escribió:
> Le 01/03/2016 11:37, Noel Torres a écrit :
>> It happens a lot that two packages you need request different
>> versions of the same library, not always co-installable. Mostly if
>> you go beyond "stable". Or even if you got stuck on oldstable and
>> try to install some simple new package.
>>
>> And this is a good amount of the "dependency hell" when it comes to
>> Desktop users.
>>
>> So, I think that having some way of installing multiple versions of
>> the same library would be a useful feature. Heck, even windows does
>> that in (some) right way.
>
> I hesitated to reply because I know my answer is politically
> incorrect. "dependency hell" is the consequence of dynamic linkage.
> I understand that dynamic linkage is a necessity for distros, but if
> the concern is about one package, this very one can be linked
> statically. Just search for "static" in synaptic and you'll see that
> many Debian packages, including bash and zsh have static versions,
> therefore it is not so politically incorrect. Therefore nothing
> prevents bitcoin from being statically linked - only glibc remaining
> dynamic.
>
> Didier
My concern is not about one package, but about any situation in which
upgrading any single package gives you a hell.
Regards
Noel
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