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* Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?
  @ 2007-08-06  9:17 99%     ` Neil Bothwick
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From: Neil Bothwick @ 2007-08-06  9:17 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:45:25 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:

> Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version
> 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a
> deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would
> cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library).
> However, is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will
> prevent this problem*.

SLOTs deal with this problem, allowing you to have LIB-1.0 and LIB-2.0
installed simultaneously.

> * Needless to say, the problem will still arise if two applications 
> depend on the same dynamic library, which is a common case, and only
> one of them is updated, but still it's an improvement.

Unless you use SLOTs.


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