Les Mikesell wrote:
And you may need both old and new versions present while you perform the
operations an upgrade requires. So generic package-magic would involve
being able to install the new version without removing the old so you
have a chance to do the interactive parts before it is too late.
Again, this is something upstream project should do. GTK and gstreamer
for example does make this easy.
http://www106.pair.com/rhp/parallel.html
Working around this at the packaging level is always going to require
elaborate hacks. OpenSUSE did this for shipping KDE 3 and KDE 4 in
parallel but other distributions refused.
Think USB external, flash or laptop form. They are great things to have
around for other purposes too.
External USB's are not a answer in embedded systems. You cannot rely on
external disk storage for base os functionality.
Rahul
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