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Hello, |
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For anyone who uses the data analysis framework ROOT developed mainly |
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at CERN (sorry, I didn't name it 'root'), I can imagine that slotting |
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would be an extremely useful feature. |
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Anyone who doesn't use or know root, but has experience or opinions on |
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how or when slots should be used, your feedback would be appreciated, |
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too. |
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All kinds of macros and libraries will go bonkers on the wrong |
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version, and there are even binary linux executables out there that |
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want certain versions installed. It's a pity I didn't think of this a |
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few years ago. |
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It occurred to me tonight that adding slotting should be easy and very |
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useful. I've never added slotting, but I'm already running root as a |
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local overlay because I need root-5.20 (with patches from 5.22+ to |
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keep my system otherwise current!), and so I'm going to give it a go |
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at least for myself. Actually, few of the people I know in physics |
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run Gentoo, but they also complain about root versions. Maybe I at |
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least have an argument that would compel anyone to switch to Gentoo if |
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we get slots running. |
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If this seems like a good feature request, I'll put a modified ebuild |
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on bugzilla for all present root versions after I can test it (may |
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take a few days, since root isn't a quick compile and I have physics |
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to do). |
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Obviously, if this happens, I need to consider a bugzilla feature |
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request on eselect as well, or make eselect-root. Never touched that |
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source either, but I will, if nothing else, be hacking together an |
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eselect-root shell script for myself. If I manage to modify the |
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eselect source, then at least I might be more deserving of the |
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ChangeLog credit, since I don't think making the number for slot |
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non-zero in a few ebuilds really qualifies as real work. Might also |
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need the multislot use flag. |
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Anyone out there interested in this or have some feedback for me? If |
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it's only me, I'm hesitant to submit it to bugzilla (no sooner than |
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next week), but I'll be running it as local ebuilds as slots from here |
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on out. |
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Regards, |
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daid |
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