Re: debugging support - multidimensional package selection - excursion

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:05 +0100, Marc Weber wrote:

This leads me to the question: Is it enough to identify a package by (name/id) and version?

I think a more dimensional way would be useful

Any comments? Is this all nonsense ?

For some related work you might want to look at Nix: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/ in particular it address the issue of identifying and separating builds based on multiple variables (and managing the deps). Duncan