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 1Qy0Ej-00042o-Af for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:42:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6CF721C3D6; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92EF021C2D8 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B37120A58 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:41:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:41:00 -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=ytu+74Q5RQiifOAsfZsJ8pxHJG4=; b=OCf 8jZ4HGfKsIBpm9g6g0pgcAf5Ozlugu4wRqBoWEnt+UQA4cXSxrgOhlMyyyxXy204 5h49Mw62XeT8V2mVA9iEAcruXDTlrw0GobW1lxZT4683vZOgBDJrrG/a+6IREyHC 8JDmBoSuqt7UzLDLiVEsS1FqDIXSXp9l6CjGkYh8= X-Sasl-enc: mY2d2L0xR0ByhYW9HUM89XtyuUshZLrxMfIFf54zqHdf 1314618060 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-032-219.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.32.219]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEE77A40014 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do slots work? From: "Albert W. Hopkins" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:40:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110829085112.GA2908@acm.acm> References: <20110829085112.GA2908@acm.acm> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1314618060.4107.6.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: 1c230a6d70d1842a68e77ea9d02648d8 On Monday, August 29 at 08:51 (+0000), Alan Mackenzie said: > What I really want to do is to try out Gnome 3, to see if it's like > what > people say it is, but without endangering my current Gnome 2.32.1. If > I > build Gnome 3, will its executable have a different name? It's not slotted, so that answers your first question. Also, gnome is a *bunch* of executables and libraries, so it's not as simple as renameing "gnome-session" to "gnome-session3". To answer the first, if you have two or more of the same package, say "foo", then slots tell portage that more than one version of "foo" may be installed if they are in different slots. For example, python-2.7.* packages are in slot "2.7" and python-3.2* packages are in slot "3.2" so python-2.7.2-r2 and python-3.2-r2 may be installed simultaneously. However, ex., 2.7.1-r2 and 2.7.2-r2 may not (because they are in both slot) "2.7". Similarly gnome-2* and gnome-3* (from the "gnome" overlay) are both in slot "2.0". The reason why GNOME 3 is in slot "2.0" is that it cannot be installed alongside GNOME 2, so no use in bumping the slot #.