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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, econti wrote: |
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> "Scrolling" my package db I found I have installed many automakes. Here is the |
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> list: |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 664 16 ott 10:36 automake-1.10 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.4_p6 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.5 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.6.3 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.7.9-r1 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.8.5-r3 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.9.6-r1 |
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> Should it be possible to unmerge the older ones? |
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I believe that automake is only needed at build time, not at runtime, so |
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you could unmerge all of them and have the system work. Of course, the |
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next time you emerged practically anything, it would have to build an |
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automake. Also, the reason you have so many installed is that they're not |
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generally compatible with each other. Various packages require different |
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versions in order to build correctly, and a bunch of magic in portage |
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deals with this. On the other hand, you probably won't need all of those |
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versions. If you do: |
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"emerge --depclean automake" |
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It'll unmerge some of them (at a guess, 1.4_p6 and 1.9.6-r1, if not |
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others). If you include --verbose, it'll tell you what packages wanted |
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each version. |
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-Daniel |
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