From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5743 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Nov 2003 20:17:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19543 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2003 20:17:30 -0000 X-Authentication-Warning: utx.utx.cz: sb set sender to utx@gentoo.org using -f From: Stanislav Brabec To: Thomas de Grenier de Latour Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20031121152513.1f56c659.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> References: <20031121134441.GA31194@mail.ignum.cz> <20031121152513.1f56c659.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1069618634.4465.7.camel@utx.utx.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:17:15 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Slotting Tcl/Tk X-Archives-Salt: befea4bd-d8a6-43f4-a3a0-807033c5edff X-Archives-Hash: 790f91050820620bb7143947e25d357a Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:44:41 +0100 > Stanislav Brabec wrote: > > > You can have installed two packages using two SLOTs in one time. > > Hmmm... not the same version of two packages afaik, at least not > cleanly: the second installation would overwrite the db entry of the > first one, making portage forget half of the files, no? Portage does not forget anything (even in case all files are in the same SLOT). Only filesystem "forgets" old file overwritten by new one. So there is a basic condition for non-conflicting packages and seamless SLOTs: There must not be no files owned by both files or SLOTs. (This should be stated somewhere in ebuild howto.) You can have apache1 and apache2, gtk1 and gtk2 installed at once, because mainstream developers of those packages has changed file names. -- Stanislav Brabec http://www.penguin.cz/~utx, ICQ 116020046 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list