On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:51 PM, J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 02:12:12 PM Raymond Jennings wrote: > > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages > > > > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype > > * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version > > > > There were some version number snarls and it was decided that a split > would > > be cleaner. > > > > Blame microsoft for giving their current version a lower number than the > > classic one. > > Thank you for this note as I would probably have missed this. > > I will test this on a VM until it leaves "alpha" status. > > One little note: I don't think it's supposed to be possible to install > both at > the same time. But it is currently possible. > I actually do it that way on purpose. I think it's because skype is not slotted and the dependency line in the > ebuild specifies slot "1" for skype. > By design. I removed the slotting after splitting the package. And I made this announcement becuase I'm the current proxy maintainer for both packages. > > -- > Joost > >
