debugging support - multidimensional package selection - excursion

[Duncan Coutts]

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