Re: [gentoo-user] "slotting" openoffice 2.0

2005-10-16 Thread Richard Fish
Iain Buchanan wrote: I want to try out openoffice 2.0, but I still want 1.x around just in case (I use it quite regularly). Can I "slot" 2.0? Is it as simple as the handbook says (ie, just add the SLOT variable to the ebuild) provided of course I use the portage overlay... Or is it more compl

Re: [gentoo-user] "slotting" openoffice 2.0

2005-10-16 Thread joachim . fasting
Why not just use quickpkg from gentoolkit and make a backup of the installed version of openoffice before installing the new one? Doing so enables you to revert the change easily without any ebuild hacking. On 22:37 Sun 16 Oct , Iain Buchanan skrev: > I want to try out openoffice 2.0, but I st

[gentoo-user] "slotting" openoffice 2.0

2005-10-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
I want to try out openoffice 2.0, but I still want 1.x around just in case (I use it quite regularly). Can I "slot" 2.0? Is it as simple as the handbook says (ie, just add the SLOT variable to the ebuild) provided of course I use the portage overlay... Or is it more complicated, ie overwriting e