software - multiple version installs (any distro developers here?)

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:48:42PM -0400, John wrote:
> Might take a look at homebrew on OSX ... it's similar to your idea ,
> everything is installed into its own little packaged directory and
> then symlinked back to /usr/local/{bin,sbin}/....

Good, so someone's tried it.


> It beats macports and fink all to fuck.

An encouraging data point. In your experience, why is it
such a better FHS layout?