Adrian wrote: >On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:06:18 +0300 >Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > > > >>Hi, >>In my previous post forgot to mention that the "freetype" library is >>slotted, usually you have two versions installed. >>On my system i have: media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r4 & >>media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1 and FF depends on 'fontconfig' which in >>turn depends on: >=media-libs/freetype-2.1.4 >>media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1 (second entry is my version). >>Usually when using "emerge category/package" it emerges the latest >>version (corrections accepted here) but could try re-emerging the >>minor version. The syntax here is: "emerge =category/package-version >>-v". Also search Bugzilla. >>HTH. Rumen >> >> > >Hi Rumen; > >I did not know I would have multiple versions on freetype on my system, >thanks for pointing that out. >I did: >emerge -v =media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r4 >and this seemed to work just fine, but the Firefox emerge still fails >with the same error message. >How do I find out which versions of a slotted program are installed? >Maybe it needs a version different from either of these?? Obviously I'm >grasping at thin air here, but I don't know what else to think at the >moment. >Thanks for you assistance, I'm most appreciative. >Skippy > > > > Hi Adrian, Currently i use 'qpkg --dups -v', it's in "app-portage/gentoolkit" but for some time is deprecated (+ etcat) and their replacement is 'equery'. When emerging latest (~x86 in my case) at the end of emerge there are some info about "qpkg&etcat" move them if you wish to use. A quick check of equery options didn't show the same tool (output all slotted packages), somebody? HTH. Rumen
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