Re: a bit curiousity

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 22 Dec 2015 16:24, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Dika Setya Prayogi <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 1.install two or multiple package with different version in single profile
>
> You can ask Guix to install different versions of the same package (if
> available) into a single profile, but when creating the new profile
> generation Guix would resolve conflicts and you’d end up with just one
> (possibly broken) version.  This is unavoidable when packages provide
> files with identical (and thus conflicting) paths.

Food for thought: Guix could automatically create e.g. hello-0.4 and
hello-0.5 symlinks in a profile.  Or guile-2.0 and guile-2.2.  The
resolution of the "guile" link itself could remain random, or it could
default to the latest version, picking randomly at ties, or other
policies.  At least for executables this could be a nice feature.

Andy