Re: [gentoo-dev] missing SLOTs

[Mark Gilbert]

Eh, problem with hdparm is that 5.2 is being merged in /usr/sbin while
4.9 sits in /sbin.

-MG

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