On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 09:31 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Noack, Sebastian wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I like to try bleeding edge beta versions. But I hate that if I will > > install for example the new firefox 2 beta via portage, it will unmerge > > the current stable version. I would prefer to have a stable version for > > daily work and the beta version for testing purposes at the same time on > > my system. Therefore I would propose to introduce a policy, which forces > > each ebuild with the suffix _alpha, _beta or _pre have to be slotable. > > > Not feasable. You have 2 possible ways of doing it though. one is to > use a chroot to test these things, and the other is to take a quickpkg > of the stable version and emerge -k when you're done testing the > bleeding edge stuff.
Is it possible to get Portage (or ebuild) to build a package for installation into /opt? If not, how much work would that be? What would be great would be to have emerge --optinstall package, that installs the package into /opt/$PV and doesn't create a vdb entry... feasible? Ed -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
