News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”. Parent comment

Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by acdha on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:55AM (#14743061)
Do you need more than the basic CLI tools? “xcode-select --install” didn't used to require an App Store account.

How are you managing different package versions on Linux – PPAs to avoid conflicts with the system Perl, Apache, etc,

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by petre on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:59PM (#14748011)
Perl allows multiple installations using plenv or perlbrew. You activate one of those or the system Perl. For the rest we just need one version - the one that runs in the production machines.
[ Parent | on HN ]