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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use concurrently?
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:25:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308450323.326846.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308448028.9273.12.camel@rattus>



On Sunday, June 19 at 09:47 (+0800), William Kenworthy said:

> 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.

You are wrong. slots is the mechanism whereby "different versions of a
single package can coexist on a system".  "Setting a choice" I assume
means your eselect-style choices.   For example, you can eselect a
pager, which has nothing do do with slots.  Or you can eselect the
system python, which does (indirectly) have to do with slots.  But
eselect and slots are not the same.  




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-19  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-19  0:18 [gentoo-user] Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use concurrently? William Kenworthy
2011-06-19  0:28 ` Dale
2011-06-19  0:36   ` skiarxon
2011-06-19  1:47   ` William Kenworthy
2011-06-19  2:16     ` Dale
2011-06-19  2:25     ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2011-06-19  9:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-19 12:11   ` William Kenworthy
2011-06-19 15:40     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-19 22:22     ` James Cloos
2011-06-19 23:22       ` William Kenworthy

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