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Michael Mol posted on Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:17:56 -0500 as excerpted: |
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>> I'm not following you here. 'slot' means a very specific thing. You are |
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>> not actually suggesting we use SLOT, you simply want both versions of |
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>> the library to be installed in one ROOT? |
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>> I would not advocate this approach. You should strive to have only one |
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>> kerberos implementation on a given machine. |
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> I'm really not certain, to be honest. It was my impression that slots |
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> allow for two different versions of a thing to be present on the same |
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> system, and that their different sonames on the system would lead to |
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> correct symbol resolution. (Although it would require that the soname |
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> being sought be adjusted in a dependent program to target the version |
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> required.) |
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The issue is in one's definition of "two different versions of a thing". |
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"Slot", in the gentoo sense, has the meaning of two different versions of |
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the same package, say qt-3 (tho that's long out-of-tree, but alive in kde- |
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sunset) and qt-4 and qt-5 (tho that's very new, but is or will soon be a |
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problem as more packages dep on it), where there'd ordinarily be file and/ |
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or functionality collisions, NOT two different packages containing the |
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same functionality, which is the extended meaning it appears you're |
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applying here, but which only confuses people when used within the gentoo |
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context. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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