linux.gentoo.user

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

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