From: Eamon Caddigan <ecaddiga@uiuc.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Slotting Tcl/Tk
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:40:16 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bprggv$arf$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1069618634.4465.7.camel@utx.utx.cz
Stanislav Brabec <utx@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:44:41 +0100
>> Stanislav Brabec <utx@gentoo.org> 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.)
This would be easy enough to implement for Tcl/Tk. However, as the
consensus seems to be that SLOT-ing Tcl/Tk is a bad idea, I won't
bother.
-Eamon
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-21 2:42 [gentoo-dev] Slotting Tcl/Tk Eamon Caddigan
2003-11-21 13:44 ` Stanislav Brabec
2003-11-21 14:04 ` [gentoo-dev] and Python! (Re: [gentoo-dev] Slotting Tcl/Tk) Jean Jordaan
2003-11-21 14:25 ` [gentoo-dev] Slotting Tcl/Tk Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-11-23 20:17 ` Stanislav Brabec
2003-11-23 23:40 ` Eamon Caddigan [this message]
2003-11-21 14:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Eamon Caddigan
2003-11-21 14:54 ` Mike Frysinger
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