[lug] LUG Digest, Vol 203, Issue 10

[Evelyn Mitchell]

Isn't this the sort of situation that /usr/sbin/alternatives was designed
to handle? Or was that more designed for having multiple versions of the
same program under the same name? I don't know how the system package
manager interacts with this.

Namespace collisions are annoying, and having a one big tent environment
makes them harder to handle.

"It's at an entirely different level but one of my current headaches is that
we're still using a single uber-dev environment and 'yarn' can mean:

- nodejs package manager
- hadoop CLI application"

Evelyn Mitchell
tummy.com

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM <lug-request at lug.boulder.co.us> wrote:

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> It's at an entirely different level but one of my current headaches is that
> we're still using a single uber-dev environment and 'yarn' can mean:
>
> - nodejs package manager
> - hadoop CLI application
>
> I need both. Fortunately not at the same time but it's a real headache
> because of the package dependencies when you need to remove one before
> installing the other.
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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 6:42 AM Davide Del Vento <
> davide.del.vento at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 6:35 AM Davide Del Vento <
> > davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote
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> >> Things that bug me are others, like... let me start a new thread instead
> >> of hijacking this one...
> >>
> >
> > In case you haven't seen this one, it's pretty.... interesting (make sure
> > you check what the maintainers of the other packages said). This is a
> > serious issue of "present" compatibility which can be solved only
> breaking
> > backward compatibility until someone picks a name someone else already
> > picked and it breaks again: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4625
> >
> > Well, hopefully https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988 will solve it,
> but
> > it's only 7 years old, so don't hold your breath. And perhaps it's out of
> > scope....
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