From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17943 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2004 18:21:30 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 18 Jul 2004 18:21:30 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BmGHx-0001BC-UD for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:21:30 +0000 Received: (qmail 17681 invoked by uid 89); 18 Jul 2004 18:21:29 +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 18728 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2004 18:21:29 +0000 From: foser To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20040718105018.A26139@netdirect.ca> References: <20040718022325.A2570@netdirect.ca> <1090134854.7875.43.camel@localhost> <20040718105018.A26139@netdirect.ca> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-IAa8iGarwodJb1Q1aNsQ" Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:22:36 +0200 Message-Id: <1090174956.9490.12.camel@rivendell> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.90 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Using stow inside portage X-Archives-Salt: 7022aef2-4f26-43fd-a62f-513adb6fe4a2 X-Archives-Hash: 7266bd0f0181d26923a0e8e0b5ed2e44 --=-IAa8iGarwodJb1Q1aNsQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 10:50 -0400, Chris Frey wrote: > > Isn't that the purpose of SLOTs? >=20 > Yes, and that's how some of the gcc's are done. Unfortunately, slots see= m > to require developer resources to make work, and therefore aren't done > on a consistent basis. I.e. not all of the gcc's are slot-enabled, let > alone KDE or Gnome or mozilla, etc. Well, that's not really the purpose, SLOTs were meant to install packages that are _upstream_ parallel installable. Afaik SLOTting in Gentoo is consistent with most upstream releases. You can redefine SLOT to do stow like stuff (afaik KDE in Gentoo does this with different qt minor versions (?) & gcc), but I'm actually not a big fan of that sort of constructions that do not comply with upstream intent for no-good reasons : it's just great to have every mozilla release on your system at the same time, but it serves no purpose (to get back to your example). Adding global support for this will probably lead to weird problems concerning libversion mismatching etc. . - foser --=-IAa8iGarwodJb1Q1aNsQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBA+r/s8WG+0iaGxDMRAvMNAJ9FCYj5bcoSL5e3rqWIuApge5RUHQCfT3qg bbdLp5m0iSSdNXTLgUPgbqk= =Ahft -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-IAa8iGarwodJb1Q1aNsQ--