On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 19:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use > > concurrently? > > > > This has come up because I am trying to upgrade mythtv using overlays > > because gentoos mythtv builds are getting rather ancient - the drscream > > (layman) overlay is requiring a perl 6 module, but the manual github > > overlay which doesnt is January so is getting out of date anyway. > > > > or can someone point me to a recent overlay thats regularly updated and > > works(!) Currently want to go from mythtv .23-gentoo to .24-fixes and > > then .25 as its soon to be stable. > > > > BillK > > > > > > I had a look at the ebuild, it doesn't appear to be slotted. So, it is > most likely not possible to have both at the same time. The relavant > portion: > > LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 )" > SLOT="0" > KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 > ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" > > All the ebuilds I looked at had the SLOT="0" which means no slots. > > If I am wrong, someone post and correct me. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Its actually not "slotting" I am after - slots are a choice of setting the system to one or the other (correct me if I am wrong) whereas I want to use perl-5 for eveyting except this which wants perl-6. One item is that the ebuild for perl5 is "dev-perl/libwww-perl" whereas for perl 6 its "dev-perl/libwww-perl-6" which indicates co-existence might be possible - but I dont want to break a system to prove it doesnt :) BillK -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
