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On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:03, James wrote: |
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> Dmitry S. Makovey <dmitry <at> athabascau.ca> writes: |
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> > since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 |
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> > (i.e. require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any |
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> > reasons to bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and |
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> > you can safely go ahead and do |
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> > emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 |
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> > but you packages wouldn't use it. |
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> Ok this kinda makes sense. But what exactly is a 'slotted package', |
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> how do I determine when a packages is slotted, and where do I read |
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> more about 'slotted'? I see this term used ofen, but, really have |
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> no clue exactly what slotted means or if it has various meanings |
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> based on the context of it's (verbiage) usage. |
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in /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-4.1.1.ebuild check the line SLOT="4" |
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and compare it to /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-3.3.5.ebuild: |
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SLOT="3" |
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which indicates that those installed in different slots (in basic |
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terms - those could be installed side by side without affecting |
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existing applications unless they explicitly dependant on specific Qt |
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version). |
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there are quite a few "slotted" packages in portage so you might bump |
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into this every now and then (KDE is slotted AFAIR). |
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Dmitry Makovey |
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