Hi, MacPorts has this and I believe that Debian has something similar.
Say I want to install
foobar-1.0
and
foobar-2.0
and they CONFLICT
what if I could change the foobar ports to install in, say
${PREFIX}/libexec/foobar-1.0 and ${PREFIX}/libexec/foobar-2.0 respectively, and
then add a metaport that symlinks the preferred one.
Fine you say, look at python or similar metaports. Sure, but it would nice to
have a port that also has a command
portselect foobar foobar-1.0
or
portselect foobar foobar-2.0
and the preferred version would be symlinked from ${LOCALBASE}/bin/foobar ->
${PREFIX}/libexec/foobar-2.0/foobar so users could set and change the default
version and still use the common binary distributed packages.
Just a thought. This could of course be written for a specific port, but
perhaps there is a mechanism in the ports tree for this that I've missed?
Palle
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