Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

[Raymond Jennings]

As far as I know the alpha skype is a cheap clone of the web version (and
the only version that supports cloud chats)...and I don't think it uses the
.Skype database.

I also tested it, and it seems to work.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:49 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 11:39:44 PM Raymond Jennings wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:51 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 02:12:12 PM Raymond Jennings wrote:
> > > > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages
> > > >
> > > > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype
> > > > * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version
> > > >
> > > > There were some version number snarls and it was decided that a split
> > >
> > > would
> > >
> > > > be cleaner.
> > > >
> > > > Blame microsoft for giving their current version a lower number than
> the
> > > > classic one.
> > >
> > > Thank you for this note as I would probably have missed this.
> > >
> > > I will test this on a VM until it leaves "alpha" status.
> > >
> > > One little note: I don't think it's supposed to be possible to install
> > > both at
> > > the same time. But it is currently possible.
> >
> > I actually do it that way on purpose.
> >
> > I think it's because skype is not slotted and the dependency line in the
> >
> > > ebuild specifies slot "1"  for skype.
> >
> > By design.  I removed the slotting after splitting the package.
> >
> > And I made this announcement becuase I'm the current proxy maintainer for
> > both packages.
> >
>
> Ok, are you sure you don't risk corruption of the database files (under
> ~/.Skype) if both versions are running simultaneously?
>
> That is what I would be afraid of if both are installed at the same time.
>
> --
> Joost
>
>