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On Wednesday 14 March 2007 14:41:55 Michael Galassi wrote: |
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> Could someone share with me a man page or google search which will help |
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> me install multiple versions of perl on an up-to-date gentoo system? I |
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> tried emerge -a =dev-lang/perl-5.8.4-r4 and a few similar commands but |
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> to no avail. |
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Perl has never been slotted. Therefore installing more than one version of |
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perl is far from trivial. So while I can tell you how to get perl-5.8.4-r4 |
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which was removed from the tree 1½ years ago it will not be able to coexist |
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with perl-5.8.8-r2. Why would you want to do that? |
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Bo Andresen |