From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Version naming Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:18:10 -0500 Message-ID: <851tq4ree5.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <8738ap3qgq.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <20141016095111.631bf393@anarchist.wooz.org> <85wq7xcbxe.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413685118 21513 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2014 02:18:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 02:18:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 19 04:18:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xfg4l-0006G9-Go for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 04:18:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xfg4i-0007vc-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:18:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xfg4b-0007vU-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:18:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xfg4V-0004Rm-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:18:21 -0400 Original-Received: from dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.73.232]:24986 helo=dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xfg4V-0004Rf-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] ([70.94.38.149:50506] helo=TAKVER) by dnvrco-oedge01 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 4F/1E-05850-46F13445; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 02:18:13 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:03:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.118:25 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=XbIHzeJ5 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:117 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=fNEgcOh0sVsA:10 a=o_R75loqY_IA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=diAo0XpAdS7W5qaw3VsA:9 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 107.14.73.232 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175550 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> At the cost of a lot of disk space, you can install each of those in a >> separate chroot. I don't know if that qualifies as "easily" for you; > > No, it definitely doesn't qualify. First, because the problem is to > solve it within the Debian package system whereas your solution works > around it. Well, my point was you can use the Debian package system in each chroot, and get different versions of the package installed. I agree it would be nice to be able to do that in a single root, but I suspect it is not possible in general, because there could be conflicting requirements; you'd end up with full copies of /* for each version anyway. > - don't install the .debs but just compile manually and "make > install". This is certainly what I do, usually without the 'make install'. -- -- Stephe