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I had interpreted the error message to read that some other package |
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required <= openmotif-2.3.0 |
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:53:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> What's confusing about that? The reason is in the ebuild for |
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> x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1 where it's configured to not co-exist with |
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> any earlier version. Look carefully at the "<=" and version numbers... |
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> To fix: unmerge the existing openmotif, merge the new one |
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But, but, but... isn't the whole point of "--update --world" to |
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*UPDATE* to the latest available version? Why is it that openmotif |
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requires *MANUALLY* deleting the old version, when 99% of non-slottable |
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apps and libs allow portage to delete the old version and replace it |
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with the new version? I'm obviously missing something here. |
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