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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [ANN] beta-release of OPAM

Thomas Gazagnaire writes:

> To people already using OPAM, I forgot to mention that it is highly
> recommended to NOT upgrade opam using opam. The auto-update thing was
> a mistake at the first place. It is also advised to start from a fresh
> opam init. It should work if you don't, but it would definitely avoid
> some confusions in some corner-cases.

I'm thinking of trying it, but there was a bit of information I could
not find on the web page: where does OPAM puts the things it compiles?
Is it easy to just try it with an existing installation of ocaml &
libraries?

Thanks,

Alan