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Why would one need Software Collections?

Why would one need Software Collections?

Posted Dec 21, 2012 15:36 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
In reply to: Why would one need Software Collections? by davecb
Parent article: Fedora ponders Software Collections

> I can understand wishing to chose a particular interface for your mail, or wishing to chose a particular implementation for one's ldap, but why would one ever want to have multiple versions of a program?

Primarily, this isn't about versions of end-user applications, but of development and library stacks.


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Why would one need Software Collections?

Posted Dec 21, 2012 19:06 UTC (Fri) by davecb (subscriber, #1574) [Link]

Good: that is more amenable to the "David J. Brown is as scary as Linus" technique (:-))

--dave


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