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Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: |
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> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:44:41 +0100 |
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> Stanislav Brabec <utx@g.o> wrote: |
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> > You can have installed two packages using two SLOTs in one time. |
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> Hmmm... not the same version of two packages afaik, at least not |
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> cleanly: the second installation would overwrite the db entry of the |
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> first one, making portage forget half of the files, no? |
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Portage does not forget anything (even in case all files are in the same |
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SLOT). Only filesystem "forgets" old file overwritten by new one. |
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So there is a basic condition for non-conflicting packages and seamless |
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SLOTs: There must not be no files owned by both files or SLOTs. (This |
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should be stated somewhere in ebuild howto.) |
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You can have apache1 and apache2, gtk1 and gtk2 installed at once, |
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because mainstream developers of those packages has changed file names. |
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Stanislav Brabec |
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http://www.penguin.cz/~utx, ICQ 116020046 |
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