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Multiple versions of the same package installed at same time

Multiple versions of the same package installed at same time

Posted Nov 14, 2009 17:35 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Multiple versions of the same package installed at same time by Cato
Parent article: Python moratorium and the future of 2.x

It is better this way, I think. I don't want a second set of the same libraries lying around; if I did I would do the chroot myself. It does not look like a hack to me, at least on Debian.

# ls -l /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 jul 17 01:48 /usr/bin/python -> python2.5


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