Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

[Zac Medico]

On 01/17/2013 08:47 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:47:18 -0800
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>> REPLACING_VERSIONS always refers to packages with identical SLOT to
>> the current package
>
> No it doesn't. If you have foo-1:a and foo-2:b installed, and then you
> install foo-1:b, it replaces both 1:a and 2:b.

Ah, that's true, because PMS constraints (and /var/db/pkg layout) force
foo-1:b to replace foo-1:a despite the difference in SLOT.

For the purposes of readme.gentoo.eclass though, the difference seems
negligible (foo-1:a and foo-1:b are likely to have mostly identical
README.gentoo content).
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Thanks,
Zac