On 12/11/12 14:46, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 11/12/2012 01:28:08 PM, Redcap wrote:
Today I noticed that emerge adds a colon together with an integer to the
version of every package it wants to update, e.g. it says
[ebuild U ~] kde-base/kmail-4.9.3:4 [4.9.2:4] USE="handbook
kontact (-
aqua) -debug {-test}" 0 kB
I never noticed the trailing ":4" before and I have no idea what it
means. I
searched the gentoo website but haven't been able to find anything
about it.
Does anyone what it is about?
It's the value of SLOT. There are package for which multiple versions
can be installed
at the same time
Actually, slotted packages are not guaranteed to support that.
Sometimes slots are only used for grouping, but different slots can't be
installed in parallel. google-chrome is an example.
