At 1996-08-28 21:59 +0000, Brian C. White wrote: >I know that at one point the dselect/dpkg combination had fairly serious >problems if the same package name existed with multiple versions. I learned >this the hard way when I installed from a mirror that had not run to >completion and thus had not deleted the older packages. > >Dpkg installed _both_ versions of the packages at the same time and really >got screwed up. > >The reason I bring this up is that there are now several package that are >_intentionally_ in the distribution multiple times with different versions:
I think this is a useful feature and would like to see it on the wishlist at least. I'd definitely like to see dselect come up with a list of multiple versions that are available -- from both stable and unstable, for example -- and allow me to choose betwen them. I'm guessing it would also make support easier for the "realms" I mumbled about a few weeks ago. (Of course, I ca'n't offer code at the moment so my opinion carries little weight.) -- Shields, CrossLink.
