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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www Being Retired
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:02:40
Message-Id: 200409161002.26330.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www Being Retired by Stuart Herbert
1 On Thursday 16 September 2004 00:30, Stuart Herbert wrote:
2
3 > Yes, the package would have to appear in two categories. The common
4 > parts of the ebuild can be moved into an eclass. I'm not sure what
5 > conflict you think will arise. All mods that support both apache1 and
6 > apache2 should install into SLOT=1 for apache1 and SLOT=2 for apache2.
7
8 I have to agree with Doug, it is not clean at all. I really would like to
9 see some better solution than this cludge.
10
11 >
12 > > Heck.... every package... like
13 > > emerge mod_perl wouldn't even work.. it'd give you an ugly message
14 > > saying which one? www-apache1/mod-perl or www-apache2/mod-perl... Not
15 > > ideal in my book. There's got to be a better way about this.
16 >
17 > You'd only get that message if you typed 'emerge mod_perl'. If you
18 > typed 'emerge www-apache1/mod_perl', then you wouldn't get the message.
19 >
20 > As I say, I'm open to suggestions.
21
22 Here indeed is a limitation in portage.
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24 Paul
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27 Paul de Vrieze
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