On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:45:25 +0200, Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: > Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version > 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a > deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would > cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). > However, is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will > prevent this problem*.
SLOTs deal with this problem, allowing you to have LIB-1.0 and LIB-2.0 installed simultaneously. > * Needless to say, the problem will still arise if two applications > depend on the same dynamic library, which is a common case, and only > one of them is updated, but still it's an improvement. Unless you use SLOTs. -- Neil Bothwick A. Top posters. Q. What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?
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