[gentoo-dev] Re: kerberos, virtuals, rattling cages

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Michael Mol posted on Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:17:56 -0500 as excerpted:

>> I'm not following you here. 'slot' means a very specific thing. You are
>> not actually suggesting we use SLOT, you simply want both versions of
>> the library to be installed in one ROOT?
>> 
>> I would not advocate this approach. You should strive to have only one
>> kerberos implementation on a given machine.
> 
> I'm really not certain, to be honest. It was my impression that slots
> allow for two different versions of a thing to be present on the same
> system, and that their different sonames on the system would lead to
> correct symbol resolution. (Although it would require that the soname
> being sought be adjusted in a dependent program to target the version
> required.)

The issue is in one's definition of "two different versions of a thing".

"Slot", in the gentoo sense, has the meaning of two different versions of 
the same package, say qt-3 (tho that's long out-of-tree, but alive in kde-
sunset) and qt-4 and qt-5 (tho that's very new, but is or will soon be a 
problem as more packages dep on it), where there'd ordinarily be file and/
or functionality collisions, NOT two different packages containing the 
same functionality, which is the extended meaning it appears you're 
applying here, but which only confuses people when used within the gentoo 
context.

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