Stanislav Brabec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.)
This would be easy enough to implement for Tcl/Tk. However, as the consensus seems to be that SLOT-ing Tcl/Tk is a bad idea, I won't bother. -Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
