Multilib Middle-Ground

[Les Mikesell]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 03 mai 2008 à 01:01 -0500, Les Mikesell a écrit :
> 
>> One complaint is that it subverts something obviously intended to be a 
>> per-process choice into a per-machine configuration. What do you do if 
>> you, or different users, need to simultaneously run different versions 
>> of JVM's
> 
> You write the bits needed to support switching jvms at the user level
> via environment variables, and you submit them to jpp for merge in
> jpackage-utils. This has been explicitely marked as a welcome
> enhancement for five years
> 
> http://www.jpackage.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/rpms/free/jpackage-utils/doc/jpackage-1.5-policy.xhtml?revision=1.2&root=jpackage&pathrev=MAIN#id2493509
> 
> I guess none of the people who need it want to write a line of shell
> script.
> 

Where does the alternatives system expose the information that you would 
need to do this?

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