Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
We probably need better packaging guidelines for parallel installation of packages and not just specific to python. Go ahead and initiate the discussion.
Well, right now we don't really have _any_ packaging guidelines for parallel installation of similar packages, but I don't see why following the openssl model for libraries and using alternatives for binaries wouldn't suffice for the majority of cases.
~spot
We need to document them specifically. Assuming that everyone would know how openssl is packaged to mimic that model wouldnt work. Might be a naive question but why not always stick the version number in front of the packages instead of using compat-* and obsoleting older versions like we do currently?