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>Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 01:25:14 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> [I--] [??] www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.635:0 |
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>>> [IP-] [ ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-23.0.0.205:22 |
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>>> Don't ask me |
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>>> how two versions can be installed at the same time tho. I dunno. I |
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>>> don't think it is supposed to do that for this package tho. |
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>> They are in different slots, notice the slot number at the end of the |
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>> atom, slot 0 for the older one and slot 22 for the newer one. |
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>> You clearly don't have the older slot in @world or it would have been |
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>> updated, the only slot 0 version in the tree is 11.2.202.643 so I would |
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>> have expected depclean to remove this if it were no longer needed. |
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>That explains it. I didn't even think about the slots. I wasn't |
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>expecting it I guess. I just wonder how long I been using that old |
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>package instead of the new one. |
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To reiterate: |
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If you are using firefox and friends and relations, eg. seamonkey, |
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then you *need* to explictly emerge adobe-flash:0 so that it gets added |
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to your @world set. |
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If you are using chromium |
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then you should explicitly emerge adobe-flash:22 |
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Unless you are on amd_64 architcture and want to dig into installing the |
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freshplayerplugin firefox cannot use and will not recognize the flash |
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plugin provided by adobe-flash:22. |
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flash is a soft runtime dependency of firefox. Portage does not seem to |
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track the dependencies. |
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If you originally installed adobe-flash prior to the recent slotting |
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it will be in your world set as just adobe-flash. |
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Portage will diligently update this to the latest version as it comes along. |
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They will be the slot 22 versions. It does not automatically remove the |
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slot:0. |
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So firefox will use the aging slot:0 version resulting in the pesky warnings. |
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If you do a depclean emerge will remove the slot 0 version as unneeded which |
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leaves a firefox user with no flash. |
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See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash |
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Last, but not least, all of the above statements are likely to become |
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false in the forseeable future due to the fact that Adobe has changed its |
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mind about how it supports flash on Linux and Gentoo will have to change its |
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packaging in some way. |
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>At least I got rid of that pesky warning on every single video I tried |
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>to watch. That thing is annoying, which I guess is the point. |
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Yes, and deservedly so. |
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DaveF |
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>Dale |
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>:-) :-) |
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