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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to control SLOT?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 12:45:19
Message-Id: 53760835.1030801@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to control SLOT? by Mick
1 On 16/05/2014 14:38, Mick wrote:
2 > After all these years I still can't find my way around SLOT management needed
3 > for enlightenment.
4 >
5 > I want to emerge the latest available in the tree, which right now happens to
6 > be (~) 0.18.7. So I added this in my keywords:
7 >
8 >> =x11-wm/enlightenment-0.18.7:0.17 ~amd64
9
10 Either drop the "=" or drop the SLOT ":0.17"
11
12 = always means a specific version is to be specified and a SLOT is not a
13 version
14
15 >
16 > However, if I try:
17 > ==========================================================================
18 > # emerge -1aDv enlightenment
19 >
20 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
21 >
22 > Calculating dependencies... done!
23 > [ebuild NS ] x11-wm/enlightenment-1.0.11:0 [0.18.7:0.17/0.18.7] USE="dbus
24 > nls pango -doc -pulseaudio -xcomposite -xinerama -xrandr" 2,229 kB
25 >
26 > Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 2,229 kB
27 > ==========================================================================
28 >
29 > It wants to bring in e16, of SLOT 0, instead of 0.18.7 SLOT 0.17. Can you
30 > please explain to me how this is meant to work and what the correct syntax is?
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33 Your keyword entry applies to nothing in the tree, so you get the
34 expected result, the latest stable version of e
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39 Alan McKinnon
40 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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