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From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] libxml2 has 7 different versions in slot 2?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:01:20
Message-Id: CAJjrzcXLi8yz0xM-Wu04m_X2eG8t=psjyX9GL7oKBkUsn0KhmQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] libxml2 has 7 different versions in slot 2? by n952162
1 On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 21:26, n952162 <n952162@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Those aren't slot collisions?
3
4 It's only slot collisions if you try to install more than one of them
5 at the same time.
6
7 But that script does *not* list available versions of libxml2, it
8 lists the stated dependencies of packages depending on libxml2, and if
9 a package depends on '>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.3', it will still get
10 libxml2-2.9.10-r4, which currently is the only version available in
11 tree.
12
13 Regards,
14 Arve