William Kenworthy wrote:
On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 19:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
William Kenworthy wrote:
Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use
concurrently?
This has come up because I am trying to upgrade mythtv using overlays
because gentoos mythtv builds are getting rather ancient - the drscream
(layman) overlay is requiring a perl 6 module, but the manual github
overlay which doesnt is January so is getting out of date anyway.
or can someone point me to a recent overlay thats regularly updated and
works(!) Currently want to go from mythtv .23-gentoo to .24-fixes and
then .25 as its soon to be stable.
BillK
I had a look at the ebuild, it doesn't appear to be slotted. So, it is
most likely not possible to have both at the same time. The relavant
portion:
LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390
~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
All the ebuilds I looked at had the SLOT="0" which means no slots.
If I am wrong, someone post and correct me.
Dale
:-) :-)
Its actually not "slotting" I am after - slots are a choice of setting
the system to one or the other (correct me if I am wrong) whereas I want
to use perl-5 for eveyting except this which wants perl-6.
One item is that the ebuild for perl5 is "dev-perl/libwww-perl" whereas
for perl 6 its "dev-perl/libwww-perl-6" which indicates co-existence
might be possible - but I dont want to break a system to prove it
doesnt :)
BillK
In order to have two versions of the same package on a system at the
same time, the system has to be able to figure out which is which. That
is what Gentoo calls slots. Here, I have python 2 and 3 installed. I
have the system set to python 2, with eselect, but some packages CAN use
python 3 if it so chooses. Maybe this link explains it better:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap5
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
