Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:44:25
Message-Id: 200406241044.30220.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's by John Lazos
1 On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:30, John Lazos wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 >
5 >
6 > Is it possible to have (e.g) 2 different versions of Squid Proxy
7 > installed on the system ad choose which one to use?
8 >
9 > Can this be done with SLOT's? If yes, how it can be done?
10 >
11 > Is there any documentation available for the SLOT's feature?
12
13 Currently portage does not allow on-demand paralel installs. Slot's are
14 features of a particular ebuild that means that different slots do not
15 overlap or only trivially. As all squid ebuilds have the same slot it is
16 not possible to install paralel squid's.
17
18 Paul
19
20 --
21 Paul de Vrieze
22 Gentoo Developer
23 Mail: pauldv@g.o
24 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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RE: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge and SLOT's John Lazos <jlazos@××××.gr>