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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple perl installations
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:40:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703141940.43342.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703141341.l2EDftbL083965@penguin.ncube.com>

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On Wednesday 14 March 2007 14:41:55 Michael Galassi wrote:
> Could someone share with me a man page or google search which will help
> me install multiple versions of perl on an up-to-date gentoo system?  I
> tried emerge -a =dev-lang/perl-5.8.4-r4 and a few similar commands but
> to no avail.

Perl has never been slotted. Therefore installing more than one version of 
perl is far from trivial. So while I can tell you how to get perl-5.8.4-r4 
which was removed from the tree 1½ years ago it will not be able to coexist 
with perl-5.8.8-r2. Why would you want to do that?

-- 
Bo Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-14 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-14 13:41 [gentoo-user] multiple perl installations Michael Galassi
2007-03-14 18:40 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
2007-03-14 18:56   ` Michael Galassi

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