Pacman and slots

gnos · 2010-05-17 23:52:27

Hi all. I just installed Arch linux and was surprised (having come from the Gentoo world) to find that openjdk conflicts with sun's jre/jdk. Does Arch support slotting packages? And if not, are there any plans to add this functionality? I find slots to be an extremely desirable feature. Thanks.

flamelab · 2010-05-18 00:55:56

Slots is a feature that is mostly fitting to a source based distro (which allows to build multiple versions of an app) AND to have multiple versions of an app available on the package manager.

You can always build an app ofcourse with different prefixes, but I don't know how complex that can be.

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ngoonee · 2010-05-18 01:00:07

Pardon the non-gentooer, but what are slots, and why would they be desirable?

flamelab · 2010-05-18 01:07:08

ngoonee wrote:

Pardon the non-gentooer, but what are slots, and why would they be desirable?

With Gentoo's portage, you have the ability to have multiple versions of an app installed in the system, without problems (or without visible problems in the very complex cases like DEs).

some-guy94 · 2010-05-18 01:38:23

It's not too difficult, of course both can't be used simultaneously, but all it really requires is renaming binaries and creating symlinks

ngoonee · 2010-05-18 02:03:38

Are the symlinks automatically redirected? What's the mechanism for that? What about dependencies on different versions of the same library?

To answer the OP, no its not really possible AFAIK.

some-guy94 · 2010-05-18 02:04:02

EDIT: Double post...

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ph03 · 2011-10-10 13:29:36

Is there some news about the availability of slots in arch?
I'm also coming from gentoo and on gentoo I have slotted versions of gcc, boost, blas, lapack, python etc... There they can easily be selected by the eselect tool (gcc-config for gcc). Is there some equivalent way to have, lets say, multiple gcc versions installed simultaneously on arch? If this was possible I think I would switch distros

karol · 2011-10-10 13:40:11

ph03 wrote:

Is there some news about the availability of slots in arch?
I'm also coming from gentoo and on gentoo I have slotted versions of gcc, boost, blas, lapack, python etc... There they can easily be selected by the eselect tool (gcc-config for gcc). Is there some equivalent way to have, lets say, multiple gcc versions installed simultaneously on arch? If this was possible I think I would switch distros

Multiple versions of gcc are available in the AUR although I'm not sure if they work.

Leonid.I · 2011-10-10 14:27:46

ph03 wrote:

Is there some news about the availability of slots in arch?

No, and nothing is anticipated, AFAIK. Since in arch there is only one version of each package is maintained this feature would be useless. You can always have alternative versions of a package installed in /opt or /usr/local/*...

fsckd · 2011-10-15 02:57:20

Judging by the lack of dev response I'm assuming there will not be any chance for slots in the foreseeable future. Closing as a necro-bump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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