Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www Being Retired

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 16 September 2004 00:30, Stuart Herbert wrote:

> Yes, the package would have to appear in two categories.  The common
> parts of the ebuild can be moved into an eclass.  I'm not sure what
> conflict you think will arise.  All mods that support both apache1 and
> apache2 should install into SLOT=1 for apache1 and SLOT=2 for apache2.

I have to agree with Doug, it is not clean at all. I really would like to 
see some better solution than this cludge.

>
> > Heck.... every package... like
> > emerge mod_perl wouldn't even work.. it'd give you an ugly message
> > saying which one? www-apache1/mod-perl or www-apache2/mod-perl... Not
> > ideal in my book. There's got to be a better way about this.
>
> You'd only get that message if you typed 'emerge mod_perl'.  If you
> typed 'emerge www-apache1/mod_perl', then you wouldn't get the message.
>
> As I say, I'm open to suggestions.

Here indeed is a limitation in portage.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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