Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: John Lazos <jlazos@××××.gr>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:50:58
Message-Id: 200406240850.i5O8omTb012696@forthnet.gr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's by Paul de Vrieze
1 Thanks a lot for your answer!
2 It was very helpful, considering the usage of SLOT's I thought it was on
3 demand SLOTing! :)
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6 John Lazos
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8 > -----Original Message-----
9 > From: Paul de Vrieze [mailto:pauldv@g.o]
10 > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:44 AM
11 > To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
12 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's
13 >
14 > On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:30, John Lazos wrote:
15 > > Hello,
16 > >
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18 > >
19 > > Is it possible to have (e.g) 2 different versions of Squid Proxy
20 > > installed on the system ad choose which one to use?
21 > >
22 > > Can this be done with SLOT's? If yes, how it can be done?
23 > >
24 > > Is there any documentation available for the SLOT's feature?
25 >
26 > Currently portage does not allow on-demand paralel installs. Slot's are
27 > features of a particular ebuild that means that different slots do not
28 > overlap or only trivially. As all squid ebuilds have the same slot it is
29 > not possible to install paralel squid's.
30 >
31 > Paul
32 >
33 > --
34 > Paul de Vrieze
35 > Gentoo Developer
36 > Mail: pauldv@g.o
37 > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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