From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD655138330 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BFA2E0B7A; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7557E0B6B for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120E01204DA for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:45:31 +0000 () X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eahP213UGU1C for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:45:30 +0000 Received: from data.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BAE1204D8 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 06:45:30 +0000 () Received: from eve.localnet (eve.adm.antarean.org [10.55.16.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A952E4C for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2016 08:45:50 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:49:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1633523.ijFXlAStuv@eve> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.6.2-gentoo; KDE/4.14.24; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <2495617.mB56LE2UV8@eve> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 351e5c99-fea1-4f2d-b98a-1d2011c70e3a X-Archives-Hash: ee70a7aa19e0610e2978244c3ea53ffb On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 11:39:44 PM Raymond Jennings wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:51 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 02:12:12 PM Raymond Jennings wrote: > > > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages > > > > > > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype > > > * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version > > > > > > There were some version number snarls and it was decided that a split > > > > would > > > > > be cleaner. > > > > > > Blame microsoft for giving their current version a lower number than the > > > classic one. > > > > Thank you for this note as I would probably have missed this. > > > > I will test this on a VM until it leaves "alpha" status. > > > > One little note: I don't think it's supposed to be possible to install > > both at > > the same time. But it is currently possible. > > I actually do it that way on purpose. > > I think it's because skype is not slotted and the dependency line in the > > > ebuild specifies slot "1" for skype. > > By design. I removed the slotting after splitting the package. > > And I made this announcement becuase I'm the current proxy maintainer for > both packages. > Ok, are you sure you don't risk corruption of the database files (under ~/.Skype) if both versions are running simultaneously? That is what I would be afraid of if both are installed at the same time. -- Joost