On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > It's certainly an aid, at least the bottom part (like i'd said, I;d > foound several different Gentoo docs giving me descriptions of what > slots are, so I knew that, just that there seem to be no docs > anywhere I can locate IN Gentoo that tell you HOW to use slots. > So, now I know that the parens signal the slot info, but how do I > choose them, select one over anther, adn even to search for them in > emerge?
*Sigh* You are still confusing things here. There are two completely different cases. Let's first look at an enduser package like KDE. Basically, there are two "active" slots at the moment: KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0. Which one you use you can decide at the login screen under "session". If, on the other hand, you want to get rid of 3.5, you unmerge it (not recommended yet). With unslotted packages, older ones get automatically deleted when you emerge a new one. With slotted packages, it's left to you to decide to get rid of an older one. There are other packages not of interest for endusers but necessary for emerging other packages. For example the autotools automake and autoconf. They are slotted as well. You better be *very* careful when unmerging one slot. Emerging one package needs version X of these tools, another version Y, and yet another one version Z. The packages to be emerged decide themselves which version of automake or autoconf they need. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
