From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QY7NM-0003GA-5b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:04:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4298E1C029 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:04:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E161D1C010 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:47:15 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsMHAAFU/U18qcH7/2dsb2JhbABSmBaOSXfDRYYqBIcejyAdixE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,387,1304265600"; d="scan'208";a="661680873" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.193.251]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 19 Jun 2011 09:47:13 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBBE94345 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:47:13 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bh+2zuyc-hJb for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:47:09 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.2] (rattus [192.168.44.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2F19433B for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:47:09 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use concurrently? From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4DFD42A7.60906@gmail.com> References: <1308442707.9273.8.camel@rattus> <4DFD42A7.60906@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:47:08 +0800 Message-ID: <1308448028.9273.12.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 150082c92bf22b6f5ac3a4abfdb804b9 On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 19:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use > > concurrently? > > > > This has come up because I am trying to upgrade mythtv using overlays > > because gentoos mythtv builds are getting rather ancient - the drscream > > (layman) overlay is requiring a perl 6 module, but the manual github > > overlay which doesnt is January so is getting out of date anyway. > > > > or can someone point me to a recent overlay thats regularly updated and > > works(!) Currently want to go from mythtv .23-gentoo to .24-fixes and > > then .25 as its soon to be stable. > > > > BillK > > > > > > I had a look at the ebuild, it doesn't appear to be slotted. So, it is > most likely not possible to have both at the same time. The relavant > portion: > > LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )" > SLOT="0" > KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 > ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" > > All the ebuilds I looked at had the SLOT="0" which means no slots. > > If I am wrong, someone post and correct me. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Its actually not "slotting" I am after - slots are a choice of setting the system to one or the other (correct me if I am wrong) whereas I want to use perl-5 for eveyting except this which wants perl-6. One item is that the ebuild for perl5 is "dev-perl/libwww-perl" whereas for perl 6 its "dev-perl/libwww-perl-6" which indicates co-existence might be possible - but I dont want to break a system to prove it doesnt :) BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!