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


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