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On 03/10/2010 06:17 PM, walt wrote: |
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> On 03/10/2010 05:50 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, |
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>> and 1.10.2). |
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>> emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my |
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>> question is, do I need all 3 versions? |
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>> 'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages, all depending on 1.10* or |
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>> higher. |
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>> So, can I safely emerge -C the other 2 versions? Should I (does it even |
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>> matter)? |
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> Probably won't matter. A few packages actually specify an exact version |
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> of the autotools, but most just want a certain minimum version. |
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Portage doesn't allow ebuilds to specify minimum versions or ranges for |
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automake, only exact versions. |
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Specifying a mininum only works when putting automake as a dep in |
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DEPEND. However, Gentoo devs are required to use WANT_AUTOMAKE, not |
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DEPEND and WANT_AUTOMAKE only allows specific versions, not minimum ones. |
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And this means multiple automake versions on the system are perfectly |
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normal. |
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