Re: Gnome/Linux Application Installer

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, David Jeske wrote:

> > 	As for installing multiple versions of an application, well...
> > How do you do that with perl?  Easy!  Just name the program perl4 perl5
> > and symbolic link things.  :^)  And you can do the same with directories.
> > Slackware worked like that, if I recall, and there is a configuration tool
> > that does something similar as well.
> 
> I always 'encap' everything, because I also have multiple versions of
> the same apps installed, and the whole /usr/local/* system dosn't
> handle that at all. The only way to do what you're saying and not
> totally frag your install is to compile everything from source and
> that stinks. A few isolated programs are friendly about putting their
> data-files somewhere that won't collide with other versions
> (i.e. emacs), but most are broken.
> 
> However, this is not supposed to turn into a 'I don't need it because
> I do XYZ' kind of discussion. The system as a whole should be capable
> of doing a super-set of the things which are needed in the real
> world. Windows right now does a better job of app installation than
> UNIX, do we want to keep it that way? We need to stop hard-coding stuff.

	encap!  Thanks.  That was the program name I was searching for.
:^)

						-Ben

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