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On 12/11/12 14:46, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> On 11/12/2012 01:28:08 PM, Redcap wrote: |
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>> Today I noticed that emerge adds a colon together with an integer to the |
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>> version of every package it wants to update, e.g. it says |
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>> |
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>> [ebuild U ~] kde-base/kmail-4.9.3:4 [4.9.2:4] USE="handbook |
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>> kontact (- |
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>> aqua) -debug {-test}" 0 kB |
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>> |
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>> I never noticed the trailing ":4" before and I have no idea what it |
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>> means. I |
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>> searched the gentoo website but haven't been able to find anything |
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>> about it. |
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>> Does anyone what it is about? |
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> |
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> It's the value of SLOT. There are package for which multiple versions |
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> can be installed |
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> at the same time |
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Actually, slotted packages are not guaranteed to support that. |
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Sometimes slots are only used for grouping, but different slots can't be |
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installed in parallel. google-chrome is an example. |
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