[gentoo-dev] Re: Files owned by multiple slots

[Sven]

Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva <at> gentoo.org> writes:
> > > so this wrapper could be installed in a separate eselect sort of
> > > package ?
> > How exactly can this be done? If a gem creates five executables, would
> > this mean that this gem comes in six ebuilds?
>
> well given the next answer, it sounds like that's what I'm proposing.
> I release this might create a packaging overhead.

I'll check the docs to learn about how this could be done.

Yet meanwhile I'd love to get some feedback on my original proposition: Is it
feasable and acceptable to expand Portage by the possibility to declare a file
shared between slots and only delete it once the last slot is uninstalled?

Thanks for some feedback on this!   

-sven