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From: solar <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:18:12
Message-Id: 1136405715.15827.55.camel@onyx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries by Patrick Lauer
1 On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:59 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:13 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
3 > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote:
4 > > > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't
5 > > > forcefully remove python 2.4?
6 > > > e.g. could python modules be installed to multiple python versions? How
7 > > > do others (ruby, perl, ...) handle it? For the moment I've "solved" that
8 > > > by package.masking python 2.4, unmerging it and rebuilding all Python
9 > > > modules - less than optimal ...
10 > > See dev-python/validation-1.2.3 for another solution.
11 > > It installs itself for all versions of Python that are on the system.
12 > I don't fully understand the magic how it finds all Python versions, but can this be applied to other packages?
13 > Are there reasons for not doing this (besides increasing build time)?
14 >
15 > Also - how does portage react to "multi-installing" packages?
16
17 This question seems better suited for the portage mailing list.
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