FS#14972 - Installing different versions of a package in the same time

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Laszlo Papp (djszapi) - Saturday, 06 June 2009, 13:51 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 06 June 2009, 14:14 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hello!

Why doesn't Archlinux package handling mechanism provide a way to install different version of a package at the same time on my system.

E.g. gcc, java...

Kqemu is compiled with gcc-3.4.x, so i need this version too, near the new one of course.
The same causes for java, som other package.

It would be a good feature, like any other distribution, e.g. on gentoo.

sincerelly,
djszapi
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 06 June 2009, 14:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  See comment
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 06 June 2009, 14:13 GMT
This can already be achieved if packages want it. e.g. "pacman -S gcc34" will install gcc-3.4 on Arch. So, not a pacman bug.

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