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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:27:14
Message-Id: 1220793895.3247.82.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support by "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto"
1 В Вск, 07/09/2008 в 02:05 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto пишет:
2 > Our first attempt was to use a multislot use flag[1]. According to that
3 > flag, we would set the SLOT and the PREFIX for the install. That has the
4 > a very important problem - it breaks the invariancy of the SLOT and as
5 > thus been put aside.
6
7 Could you explain in a little bit more details why it's bad? How portage
8 workarounds this now for binutils?
9
10 In any case as FHS and /usr/kde/<version> installations should set
11 differently SLOT seems that new portage feature is required... May be
12 portage should allow setting SLOT in dependence on USE flag? Or new
13 property for PROPERTIES called multislot which will workaround the
14 problem with "invariancy of the SLOT"?
15
16 --
17 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>