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 1QY8Sz-0000pz-Pm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:14:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 508B61C062 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:14:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 983ED1C05A for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:25:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E32D20945 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:25:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:25:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=HFLoB9/rKAXNVGq7epoXkuAkSqY=; b=slt6apv+TCICVxopRdLuNlUQES8/FlLAMdn3+ZyleIeqGnDMGRbHrE8NnzvspQzE3XZlOlaKTy4lro1g8YS6IvbDo7P2Alr37e6T8sfaKMdX7BKt3MKTuUposuyCWgCf0+Kts9hRo+mOzybv4/Iix+OihK2RoUR6sUznPtKLwrk= X-Sasl-enc: M57+GLiDYu8JuL603G4twaZkuC2BSNkFOPfuqmGSOpQ+ 1308450323 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 02D424005F4 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:25:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use concurrently? From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:25:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1308448028.9273.12.camel@rattus> References: <1308442707.9273.8.camel@rattus> <4DFD42A7.60906@gmail.com> <1308448028.9273.12.camel@rattus> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1308450323.326846.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5849e3d1d39076e4985ec2b18b58af54 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.