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Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman <jeff@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I have just realized about programs that can be installed in slots. |
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>> Is there a way for me to find out what programs are installed in more |
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>> than one slot on my computer? Can I tell if a particular program in a |
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>> slot is still needed? |
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>"emerge --prune --pretend world" will tell you all packages that have |
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>more than one version installed (ie. slotted). |
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>As for finding out whether a particular version of a slotted package |
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>is still needed or not, well, you could do: |
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>emerge --prune <pkg> |
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>emerge -Dv world |
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>revdep-rebuild |
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>But the above is a bit dangerous, and could break your system. Be careful. |
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Thanks for the information. That is one are where I think Gentoo can |
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definitely improve. Making it so you can tell if removing a package |
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will kill anything. I would imagine this is probably not an easy task |
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though. |
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Jeff |
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