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On Saturday 17 June 2006 11:23, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: |
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> But: For me as user/sysadmin....what advantage I would have to |
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> install two versions of KDE-pakets ? |
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The advantage is that you can test one before you remove the other. Or let it |
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be up to the individual user which version (s)he prefers by having both |
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installed. |
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Now they made it slotted because the different minor versions of KDE do not |
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mix. If they allowed them to mix it would result in unpredictable bugs that |
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would make supporting KDE a nightmare. So to avoid that they are mixed they |
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had two options. |
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One is to make them slotted like they did and which results in great |
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flexibility. The *only* other alternative would have been to make them block |
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each other and hence require that you removed the old version before you |
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could even test if the new version were able to compile much less if it |
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actually worked. |
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Bo Andresen |
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