On 9/6/03 12:16 pm, "Trey Sizemore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I emerged Evolution 1.3.2 last night. Now it appears I have both 1.3.2 > AND 1.2.3 installed on my machine. Invoking 'evolution' from console or > selecting evolution from the task bar both start the 1.2.3 version. > How do I start 1.3.2? And why did it keep 1.2.3 if I did an 'emerge -u > evolution'? $ grep SLOT /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution/* /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution/evolution-1.2.3.ebuild:SLOT="0" /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution/evolution-1.2.4.ebuild:SLOT="0" /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution/evolution-1.3.2.ebuild:SLOT="2" # can co-exist with evolution <= 1.2 /usr/portage/net-mail/evolution/evolution-1.3.3.ebuild:SLOT="2" # can co-exist with evolution <= 1.2 $ I can't seem to find any great documentation searching gentoo.org documentation & forums for "slots" right now (which surprised me) but the short story is that they are a means for 2 versions of the same package to be installed at the same time. I see that Evolution is some kind of email application... <looks it up>... Eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... You sick, sick man... Gnome & Outlook in the same description. Eeeeew. My fragile little mind... You have warped me. Anyway... <shakes head to try to dispell such images> ...Evolution is some kind of email thingy. And let's say FunkMeister Spam Filter Selector ebuild-2.4 (a GUI application for choosing which spam filter selector you want to use in Evolution) depends upon version 1.3.x of Evolution, and isn't available for old versions of Evolution. But you also want to install Granny Raymond's Old-Fangled CLI Pine-Like Interface To Evolution (or Granny Raymond's PILEs for short), which depends upon some libraries which are only available with v 1.2.3 of Evolution. Since both versions of Evolution use the same mbox & configuration files, both can be installed on the same machine. SLOTs enable Portage to do this. I'm sure someone else will be along with a better explanation shortly, but I HTH nonetheless, Stroller. -- Enjoyed this post? Thanks for reading - please consider employing me! Technical support / system administration - CV available on request Linux / Unix / Windows / Mac OS X - UK or anywhere considered -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
