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Hi all- |
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I've googled and RTFM for "SLOTS" which from what I can tell is this paragraph: |
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With Portage different versions of a single package can coexist on a |
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system. While other distributions tend to name their package to those |
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versions (like freetype and freetype2) Portage uses a technology |
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called SLOTs. An ebuild declares a certain SLOT for its version. |
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Ebuilds with different SLOTs can coexist on the same system. For |
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instance, the freetype package has ebuilds with SLOT="1" and SLOT="2". |
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My question is how do other packages that build against a slotted |
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library know where to find the library? And how does one indicate |
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which version to link against? |
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Could someone explain what is happening behind the scenes? |
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thanks |
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-matt |
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[1]http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 |
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