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On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: |
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> It's certainly an aid, at least the bottom part (like i'd said, I;d |
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> foound several different Gentoo docs giving me descriptions of what |
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> slots are, so I knew that, just that there seem to be no docs |
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> anywhere I can locate IN Gentoo that tell you HOW to use slots. |
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> So, now I know that the parens signal the slot info, but how do I |
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> choose them, select one over anther, adn even to search for them in |
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> emerge? |
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*Sigh* You are still confusing things here. |
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There are two completely different cases. Let's first look at an |
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enduser package like KDE. Basically, there are two "active" slots at |
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the moment: KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0. Which one you use you can decide at |
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the login screen under "session". If, on the other hand, you want to |
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get rid of 3.5, you unmerge it (not recommended yet). With unslotted |
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packages, older ones get automatically deleted when you emerge a new |
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one. With slotted packages, it's left to you to decide to get rid of |
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an older one. |
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There are other packages not of interest for endusers but necessary |
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for emerging other packages. For example the autotools automake and |
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autoconf. They are slotted as well. You better be *very* careful when |
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unmerging one slot. Emerging one package needs version X of these |
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tools, another version Y, and yet another one version Z. The packages |
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to be emerged decide themselves which version of automake or autoconf |
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they need. |
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Uwe |
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Informal Linux Group Namibia: |
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http://www.linux.org.na/ |
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SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/ |
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