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[Remko van der Vossen <wich AT yuugen.jp>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> We have multiversion spells. No problem to have kdelibs with 3.x and 4.x
> and user can choose. Same with all kde spells. We only need some global
> setting for example KDE_BRANCH and used it in all kde spells.
> If KDE_BRANCH=4 then VERSION=4.7.1 ... If user didn't choose the
> KDE_BRANCH the default could cast.
> 
> Of course this would need some better support in sorcery.
> We even discussed this years ago.

Problem with this is that it precludes side by side installation of
multiple versions. Also general concensus is that multiversion spells
are bad and rather each version should have it's own spell if multiple
versions are desired.

Remko.