From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Trailing colon and integer in output of emerge
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:53:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k7qrgi$esu$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1352724408.32542.1@numa-i>
On 12/11/12 14:46, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 01:28:08 PM, Redcap wrote:
>> Today I noticed that emerge adds a colon together with an integer to the
>> version of every package it wants to update, e.g. it says
>>
>> [ebuild U ~] kde-base/kmail-4.9.3:4 [4.9.2:4] USE="handbook
>> kontact (-
>> aqua) -debug {-test}" 0 kB
>>
>> I never noticed the trailing ":4" before and I have no idea what it
>> means. I
>> searched the gentoo website but haven't been able to find anything
>> about it.
>> Does anyone what it is about?
>
> It's the value of SLOT. There are package for which multiple versions
> can be installed
> at the same time
Actually, slotted packages are not guaranteed to support that.
Sometimes slots are only used for grouping, but different slots can't be
installed in parallel. google-chrome is an example.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-12 12:55 UTC|newest]
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2012-11-12 12:28 [gentoo-user] Trailing colon and integer in output of emerge Redcap
2012-11-12 12:46 ` Helmut Jarausch
2012-11-12 12:53 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
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