[CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 21:02:08 UTC 2007
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
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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