Re: [gentoo-dev] Beta versions should be slotable

[Edward Catmur <ed@catmur.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 09:31 -0500, Mike Doty wrote:
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> Noack, Sebastian wrote:
> > Hi folks,
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> > I like to try bleeding edge beta versions. But I hate that if I will
> > install for example the new firefox 2 beta via portage, it will unmerge
> > the current stable version. I would prefer to have a stable version for
> > daily work and the beta version for testing purposes at the same time on
> > my system. Therefore I would propose to introduce a policy, which forces
> > each ebuild with the suffix _alpha, _beta or _pre have to be slotable.
> > 
> Not feasable.  You have 2 possible ways of doing it though. one is to
> use a chroot to test these things, and the other is to take a quickpkg
> of the stable version and emerge -k when you're done testing the
> bleeding edge stuff.

Is it possible to get Portage (or ebuild) to build a package for
installation into /opt? If not, how much work would that be? 

What would be great would be to have emerge --optinstall package, that
installs the package into /opt/$PV and doesn't create a vdb entry...
feasible?

Ed

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