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On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:00:43 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: |
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[gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?: |
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> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:17:06 +0100, David W Noon wrote: |
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[snip] |
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> > The question I think Todd Goodman is trying to ask is why a package |
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> > in world should be a candidate for depclean. |
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> Because the other slot satisfies the requirements of world, which |
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> contains an unslotted version. But then --update always tries to |
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> installed the newest suitable version. In other words, his system is |
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> broken. |
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In that case, the source of the breakage is almost certainly Portage. |
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If a slotted package is in the world file without a slot specification, |
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Portage should really take that to mean "all installed slots are |
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required" rather than "any slot will do" -- or, worse still, ignore the |
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world entry and fall back to package dependencies. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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