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From: Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is proposing an ncurses update and I don't understand what it means
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 01:38:29
Message-Id: BLU436-SMTP88C7BFEDB770FCF2E785708D690@phx.gbl
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Portage is proposing an ncurses update and I don't understand what it means by walt
1 On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 6:06:05 PM walt wrote:
2 > This is on my one amd64 (stable) machine, so the following proposed
3 > update should be safe and Just Work(TM), right?
4 >
5 > Maybe it will, but there is no way I'm going to let this upgrade happen
6 > tonight when I'm tired from fighting all day with the so-called 'stable'
7 > computers at work:
8 >
9 > Calculating dependencies... done!
10 > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5 [5.9-r3]
11 > [ebuild NS ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99 [5.9-r3] USE="cxx gpm unicode
12 > -ada -static-libs -tinfo" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)"
13 >
14 > Is this going to install two different (slotted) versions of ncurses-5.9
15 > on my stable machine?
16 >
17 > If not, then this proposed update must be an experiment or a hack or a
18 > workaround of some kind. On my *stable* machine!
19 >
20 > Can you tell I'm in a bad mood and a bit paranoid at the moment? I'm
21 > going to bed and will update the stable machine again in the morning.
22 > Hrmph!
23 >
24 >
25
26 It has something to do with the slot move. It is safe to install, I installed
27 that one about a week ago. I don't fully understand it, but I think it's to
28 cause the 6.0 update to come before the 5.9-r101 so that you don't go through
29 what I went through yesterday when I tried to outsmart portage (when you do
30 the slot move from r5 to r101 it tries to preserve the old libraries so it
31 collides with itself).
32
33 --
34 Fernando Rodriguez