Re: Packages NOT removed from frozen
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > Is there a good reason why we do need the perl-5.004* packages?
>
> I have another question similar to this one:
>
> If we drop perl-5.004, is there a good reason why we do need to rename
> an essential package? (from perl-base to perl-5.005-base).
>
> I understand this was made to be able to install several releases of
> perl at the same time, but: Is this really worthy? Why do we need several
> releases of perl? The latest and the greatest should work with every app.
>
> Thanks.
It will make the next upgrade easier than this last one. So when 5.006
comes out, we wont have to rengineer the whole package setup again.
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