Goal: Increased Modularity?

[Richi Plana]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 15:21 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Has anyone considered a system that 'makes sense' for multiuser 
> operation where different users want different alternative targets at 
> once - or the same user wants alternative JVMs for different 
> applications at the same time?

Perhaps for certain things, alternative isn't the correct device to use.
Personally, I set JAVA_HOME (along with PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH). For
other packages, I still do PATH=$PACKAGE/bin:$PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
$PACKAGE/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It's old-school but it still works,
specially on a per-user level.
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Richi Plana