Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is proposing an ncurses update and I don't understand what it means

walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:

> This is on my one amd64 (stable) machine, so the following proposed
> update should be safe and Just Work(TM), right?
>
> Maybe it will, but there is no way I'm going to let this upgrade
> happen tonight when I'm tired from fighting all day with the
> so-called 'stable' computers at work:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U  ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5 [5.9-r3]
> [ebuild  NS    ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99 [5.9-r3] USE="cxx gpm
> unicode -ada -static-libs -tinfo" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)"
>
> Is this going to install two different (slotted) versions of
> ncurses-5.9 on my stable machine?
>
> If not, then this proposed update must be an experiment or a hack or a
> workaround of some kind.  On my *stable* machine!
>
> Can you tell I'm in a bad mood and a bit paranoid at the moment?  I'm
> going to bed and will update the stable machine again in the morning.
> Hrmph!

I'm also not sure about this. I will do a full backup before I try to
update my system tomorrow.

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Regards
wabe