[CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

[Les Mikesell]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:04 PM +0200 Dag Wieers 
> <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> 
>> For the kernel there is a lot of specialized logic to
>> make it work.
> 
> Another example is Fedora's alternatives system (which, for example, 
> allows multiple versions of Java to coexist) but again that requires 
> specialized logic.

Question: how many levels of symlinks-pointing-to-symlinks does it take 
to get to the right place?  And having supplied this number of symlinks, 
how can a user choose to execute one version of java while someone else 
prefers the other?  Or how do you run one application under one version 
and another with a different one?

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   Les Mikesell
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