[gentoo-user] app-shells/bash slotted?

[gentoo-user] app-shells/bash slotted?

[John Covici]

Hi.  I noticed when preparing to do my world update today that
app-shells/bash is now slotted.  I wonder what the purpose of this is,
there seems to be no way to select the different versions and
upgrading bash broke dracut -- unless they fixed it recently.

Any thoughts?

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         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] app-shells/bash slotted?

[Andrew Savchenko]

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On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 03:36:36 -0400 John Covici wrote:
> Hi.  I noticed when preparing to do my world update today that
> app-shells/bash is now slotted.  I wonder what the purpose of this is,
> there seems to be no way to select the different versions and
> upgrading bash broke dracut -- unless they fixed it recently.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Different bash versions may pose different behaviour on the same
code. Since bash is heavily used within ebuilds and eclasses, we
may have to use bash slot different from user installed in future.
The same need may arises for users with complicated bash scripts
which may/will not work correctly with other bash versions than a
specific one. 

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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