[Pkg-xen-devel] [patch] Packages ocaml libraries

[Thomas Goirand]

On 10/24/2011 04:56 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I wonder...
> 
> The stuff under /usr/lib/xen-X.Y is registered with the Debian
> alternatives infrastructure as /usr/lib/xen-default which is supposed to
> pickup the correct version for what you are actually running. One option
> might be to place the real ocaml files in /usr/lib/xen-X.Y but also
> install symlinks in /usr/lib/ocaml (or whatever) which point
> at /usr/lib/xen-default/lib/ocaml. Hopefully that would allow ocaml
> stuff to compile without modification in the common case of wanting to
> compile against the current hypervisor and be sufficient for most of
> what we need.
> 
> Ian.

I still want to know... What's the point of the /usr/lib/xen-X.Y thing?
Why do we need to install multiple hypervisor versions? Why isn't there
a /usr/lib/xen symlink to /usr/lib/xen-X.Y, or to /usr/lib/xen-default?

I think it's been 2 years this question is still pending without answer...

Thomas