Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:44:41 +0100 > Stanislav Brabec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can have installed two packages using two SLOTs in one time. > > Hmmm... not the same version of two packages afaik, at least not > cleanly: the second installation would overwrite the db entry of the > first one, making portage forget half of the files, no?
Portage does not forget anything (even in case all files are in the same SLOT). Only filesystem "forgets" old file overwritten by new one. So there is a basic condition for non-conflicting packages and seamless SLOTs: There must not be no files owned by both files or SLOTs. (This should be stated somewhere in ebuild howto.) You can have apache1 and apache2, gtk1 and gtk2 installed at once, because mainstream developers of those packages has changed file names. -- Stanislav Brabec http://www.penguin.cz/~utx, ICQ 116020046 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
