Re: [gentoo-user] World update and dev-lang/python-exec weirdness...

[Tanstaafl]

On 3/8/2014 10:12 AM, Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net> wrote:
> * Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> [140308 09:46]:
>> If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among
>> a few other things) ONE version of dev-lang/python-exec: (2.0.1 to -r1).
>>
>> I then tried to selectively update just the kernel, and it complains
>> about python-exec-2.0.1 being masked, so I add that to the emerge command:
>>
>> emerge -pvuDN dev-lang/python-exec gentoo-sources
>>
>> This results in no blockers, BUT, NOW it wants to update TWO versions of
>> python-exec: dev-lang/python-exec 2.0.1 AND dev-lang/python-exec-0.3.1
>> (to -r1).
>>
>> First question is, why does a plain emerge -pvuDN world NOT want to
>> update both of these?
>>
>> Second questions is, do I even NEED both of these? Or can (or more
>> importantly, SHOULD) I just emerge -C dev-lang/python-exec-0.3.1?

> dev-lang/python-exec is slotted (I have slot 0 and 2 on my system.)
>
> I assume when you do the emerge -pvuDN world it only tells you about
> slot 2 because there's only a dependency on slot 2.  When you ask it to
> emerge dev-lang/python-exec it tries to emerge for all slots (I'm not
> sure, someone please correct me if that's not what's happening.)
>
> But I had a problem where something using python-exec needed to be
> rebuilt.  Run an emerge -pvutDN world (add the -t option to see the tree
> of dependencies) and look for what wants the masked python-exec.  Then
> rebuild that manually.

Thanks... so, since it is slotted, I guess my question about needing 
them both is, yes, I need them both (ie, don't emerge -C the older 0.3.1 
version)...