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On Wednesday 30 October 2002 20:21, Jonathan Hunt wrote: |
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> > What about situations where you want to keep multiple versions of a |
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> > shared library (that is, after all, one of the nice features of UNIX |
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> > over, say, Windows)? For example, you may have software that is compiled |
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> > against an older, incompatible version of imlib (or worse, 3rd party |
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> > binaries you can't recompile). |
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> > |
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> > emerge clean nukes the old installation, and while the system is now no |
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> > longer crufty it is also incompatible with that application. I've seen |
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> > this kino (before the new version came out) and dvlib, for example, and |
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> > I'm sure there are other situations as well. |
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> > |
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> > Jean. |
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> Isn't that what slots are for? |
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Yes, but not all upgrades have a different slot. Here at one time aspell got |
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upgraded. Thereafter sylpheed-claws wouldn't work. It appeared |
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libaspell-so.50.1 or so got replaced by a 50.2 version. I had to remerge |
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sylpheed-claws. |
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Groet, |
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Wilbert |
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- -- |
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Wilbert Berendsen (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/) |
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To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. |
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