From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8042 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Nov 2003 23:40:20 -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 28075 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2003 23:40:20 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org From: Eamon Caddigan Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20031121134441.GA31194@mail.ignum.cz> <20031121152513.1f56c659.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> <1069618634.4465.7.camel@utx.utx.cz> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Slotting Tcl/Tk X-Archives-Salt: 9d002697-0785-4d90-839d-107f326ec9b7 X-Archives-Hash: c0f66e8540bbbe8716fba897a8ebc4c4 Stanislav Brabec wrote: > 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.) 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list