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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:10:55PM -0500, John Franklin wrote:
> ...
> If pkg_add kept the packages separate, the pkg tools could maintain
> multiple versions of a package (say, sendmail 8.8 and 8.9), the active
> one being chosen by a symlink.  Imagine having /usr/pkg/sendmail8.8 and
> /usr/pkg/sendmail8.9 as installs, then /usr/pkg/sendmail as a symlink to
> the active version.  Now let /usr/bin/sendmail point to
> /usr/pkg/sendmail/bin/sendmail which in turn points to
> /usr/pkg/sendmail8.9/bin/sendmail.

You just described the central part of Package Views, see Alistair Crooks' 
talk at Amsterdam[1].

	-is

[1] http://bsdconeurope.org/papers/#crooks



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