On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:24 PM, dani <dani@letai.org.il> wrote:
I think it is high time to rethink the single version of a package policy,
and come up with some scheme that would allow for any package to maintain
multiple versions in a consistent manner.
We wouldn't even be the first distro to wind up discarding that
policy. Both openSUSE and Mandriva did the same many years ago. That
led to the restructuring of the packaging to the current form openSUSE
and Mageia have[1][2].
[1]: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Multiple_Version_guidelines
They use alternatives which is wrong - it forces a default for the
entire system, rather than on a per-user basis.