[gentoo-user] How do slots work?

Hi, Gentoo. How do slots work? I mean I've had a look at some ebuilds and see things like this: SLOT=3 , but with no clues as to how this gets used. Is there any handy documentation about this? I've had a look round the usual places, but found nothing. What I really want to do is to try

Re: [gentoo-user] How do slots work?

On Monday, August 29 at 08:51 (+), Alan Mackenzie said: What I really want to do is to try out Gnome 3, to see if it's like what people say it is, but without endangering my current Gnome 2.32.1. If I build Gnome 3, will its executable have a different name? It's not slotted, so that