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Eh, problem with hdparm is that 5.2 is being merged in /usr/sbin while |
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4.9 sits in /sbin. |
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-MG |
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On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 21:11, Bob Phan wrote: |
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> * On Jun 27, 2002, Jani Monoses <jani@××.ro> said: |
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> > After looking at why emerge clean wouldn't get rid of older hdparm and openssh I found that |
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> > the ebuilds for the old versions didn't have a SLOT so portage assumes nothing != 0 and |
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> > keeps both versions. |
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> > But aren't all ebuilds supposed to have SLOT defined? |
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> > Maybe temporarily until all such cases are fixed emerge could presume missing slot means 0? |
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> Generally speaking, it is better to assume too little than too much. |
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> Let's say that there is a library that you want to keep around without a |
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> slot and one of the same name at slot 0 (hypothetically, because I can't |
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> come up with an actual instance of this). Each and every time you try |
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> to clean your packages, it annoyingly uninstalls the unslotted package. |
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> On the other hand, you notice that one package didn't get uninstalled |
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> that you think should have been. You go ahead and uninstall the package |
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> and never hear from it again. That's why the current model is safer, at |
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> the cost of a single minor annoyance as opposed to repeated annoyance. |
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> But I do agree that all packages should be slotted and, if I'm not |
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> mistaken, they'll all have slots eventually. It's just a matter of |
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> waiting it out. |
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> -- |
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> /* |
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> * Bob Phan <bob@××××××××××××××××.net,rphan@××××.com> |
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<<anonymous>> ...for a brief period in the late ninetys, the rare |
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