On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:03, James wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey <dmitry <at> athabascau.ca> writes: > > since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 > > (i.e. require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any > > reasons to bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and > > you can safely go ahead and do > > emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 > > but you packages wouldn't use it. > > Ok this kinda makes sense. But what exactly is a 'slotted package', > how do I determine when a packages is slotted, and where do I read > more about 'slotted'? I see this term used ofen, but, really have > no clue exactly what slotted means or if it has various meanings > based on the context of it's (verbiage) usage.
in /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-4.1.1.ebuild check the line SLOT="4" and compare it to /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-3.3.5.ebuild: SLOT="3" which indicates that those installed in different slots (in basic terms - those could be installed side by side without affecting existing applications unless they explicitly dependant on specific Qt version). there are quite a few "slotted" packages in portage so you might bump into this every now and then (KDE is slotted AFAIR). -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245
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