[opam-devel] How to manage a package manager (Was: Re: [opam] Build clarification (#1149))

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On 1 Feb 2014, at 15:45, Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli at erratique.ch> wrote:

> 
> Le samedi, 1 février 2014 à 15:30, Anil Madhavapeddy a écrit :
> 
>> We've already seen this problem in action with a number of tools such as
>> Merlin or ocp-index that really ought to be installed system-wide and not
>> within OPAM  
> 
> I agree with what is being said regarding OPAM, but I just want to point out that this may not be the case for ocp-index. ocp-index depends on the compiler version, so you rather want ocp-index in each of our switches.  

That's a good point.  The same is true for Merlin as well.

-anil