On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:02:05 +0300 Petteri Räty wrote: > > SLOTs are for where a user may want to have multiple versions of the > > same package installed, for example where they require headers from > > two different versions or where they require shared objects from two > > different versions. > > And then you suggest we have support code to make the headers not > collide? I think time would be better spent improving the package > manager[s] instead of hacks like this. It is not, in general, a package manager solvable solution. In the real world many packages have runtime dependencies that are not .so files. -- Ciaran McCreesh