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At 21:10 2005.11.26., you wrote: |
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>Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> >On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman <jeff@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> I have just realized about programs that can be installed in slots. |
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> >> Is there a way for me to find out what programs are installed in more |
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> >> than one slot on my computer? Can I tell if a particular program in a |
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> >> slot is still needed? |
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> >"emerge --prune --pretend world" will tell you all packages that have |
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> >more than one version installed (ie. slotted). |
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> >As for finding out whether a particular version of a slotted package |
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> >is still needed or not, well, you could do: |
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> >emerge --prune <pkg> |
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> >emerge -Dv world |
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> >revdep-rebuild |
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> >But the above is a bit dangerous, and could break your system. Be careful. |
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>Thanks for the information. That is one are where I think Gentoo can |
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>definitely improve. Making it so you can tell if removing a package |
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>will kill anything. I would imagine this is probably not an easy task |
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>though. |
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>Jeff |
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maybe there should be some options when updating and emerge tries to bring |
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in new slot, see, now i have qt3 and qt4, qt3 was emerged as kde dependence |
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but nothing depends on qt4. so there waste of time and space unless i don't |
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need qt4 for development or whatever. am i right? |
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