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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up installation / two glibc versions
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:10:12
Message-Id: 200806081410.04989.dirk.heinrichs@online.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up installation / two glibc versions by Nicolai Beuermann
1 Am Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008 schrieb Nicolai Beuermann:
2 > Basic question: Why do I need two versions of glibc?
3
4 You don't.
5
6 > equery depends =sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 lists about 30 entries
7 > equery depends =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 lists 27 entries of which
8 > some are the same some are different.
9 >
10 > glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 seems to be a leftover from initial install back in
11 > 2004.
12
13 Re-emerge those packages which have the older glibc as dependency. After that,
14 you can unmerge 2.3.4.
15
16 HTH...
17
18 Dirk

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up installation / two glibc versions Nicolai Beuermann <Nicolai.Beuermann@×××.de>