Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use concurrently?

[William Kenworthy]

On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 19:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use
> > concurrently?
> >
> > This has come up because I am trying to upgrade mythtv using overlays
> > because gentoos mythtv builds are getting rather ancient - the drscream
> > (layman) overlay is requiring a perl 6 module, but the manual github
> > overlay which doesnt is January so is getting out of date anyway.
> >
> > or can someone point me to a recent overlay thats regularly updated and
> > works(!)  Currently want to go from mythtv .23-gentoo to .24-fixes and
> > then .25 as its soon to be stable.
> >
> > BillK
> >
> >
>
> I had a look at the ebuild, it doesn't appear to be slotted.  So, it is
> most likely not possible to have both at the same time.  The relavant
> portion:
>
> LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )"
> SLOT="0"
> KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390
> ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
>
> All the ebuilds I looked at had the SLOT="0" which means no slots.
>
> If I am wrong, someone post and correct me.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

Its actually not "slotting" I am after - slots are a choice of setting
the system to one or the other (correct me if I am wrong) whereas I want
to use perl-5 for eveyting except this which wants perl-6.

One item is that the ebuild for perl5 is "dev-perl/libwww-perl" whereas
for perl 6 its "dev-perl/libwww-perl-6" which indicates co-existence
might be possible - but I dont want to break a system to prove it
doesnt :)

BillK



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