[Nix-dev] Hash Collisions

Vladimír Čunát vcunat at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 20:56:16 CEST 2014


On 04/08/2014 11:43 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:
> BTW, it is currently a common limitation (e.g. in debian) that although one
> can have multiple versions of a binary package installed, there can be only
> one version of the development package. I think NixOS should be able to
> easily avoid such a restriction, and this would be a very strong selling
> point!

There is no such restriction. But we try to have just one version per 
package in current master, unless there's a good reason not to (so the 
maintenance burden is lower).

Vlada


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