Forwarded per Dale's request
DaveF
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David M. Fellows wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 01:25:14 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> [I--] [??] www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.635:0
>>>> [IP-] [ ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-23.0.0.205:22
>>>
>>>> Don't ask me
>>>> how two versions can be installed at the same time tho. I dunno. I
>>>> don't think it is supposed to do that for this package tho.
>>> They are in different slots, notice the slot number at the end of the
>>> atom, slot 0 for the older one and slot 22 for the newer one.
>>>
>>> You clearly don't have the older slot in @world or it would have been
>>> updated, the only slot 0 version in the tree is 11.2.202.643 so I would
>>> have expected depclean to remove this if it were no longer needed.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That explains it. I didn't even think about the slots. I wasn't
>> expecting it I guess. I just wonder how long I been using that old
>> package instead of the new one.
> To reiterate:
> If you are using firefox and friends and relations, eg. seamonkey,
> then you *need* to explictly emerge adobe-flash:0 so that it gets added
> to your @world set.
>
> If you are using chromium
> then you should explicitly emerge adobe-flash:22
>
> Unless you are on amd_64 architcture and want to dig into installing the
> freshplayerplugin firefox cannot use and will not recognize the flash
> plugin provided by adobe-flash:22.
>
> flash is a soft runtime dependency of firefox. Portage does not seem to
> track the dependencies.
>
> If you originally installed adobe-flash prior to the recent slotting
> it will be in your world set as just adobe-flash.
> Portage will diligently update this to the latest version as it comes along.
> They will be the slot 22 versions. It does not automatically remove the
> slot:0.
> So firefox will use the aging slot:0 version resulting in the pesky warnings.
> If you do a depclean emerge will remove the slot 0 version as unneeded which
> leaves a firefox user with no flash.
>
> See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash
>
> Last, but not least, all of the above statements are likely to become
> false in the forseeable future due to the fact that Adobe has changed its
> mind about how it supports flash on Linux and Gentoo will have to change its
> packaging in some way.
>
>> At least I got rid of that pesky warning on every single video I tried
>> to watch. That thing is annoying, which I guess is the point.
> Yes, and deservedly so.
>
> DaveF
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>>
I think you are right. While youtube and some other video sites worked
fine with the very new version, it appears I have at least one site I
visit that wants the old version. I use a .gov website for my weather
radar. Without the slot 0 version, it wouldn't load. Once installed,
with the newer slot 0 version, it worked fine.
I think the reason I, and maybe the OP as well, got the error message,
since neither of us had it in the world file, it wasn't getting updated,
even tho one was available. So, we do need to add it to the world file
IF we use any sites that require the old version instead of the new and
much improved crap that youtube and some other sites uses. ROFL I
couldn't pass it up. Sorry. That way both slots gets updated and not
just the latest and greatest crap.
I just realized that this is off list. You may want to add this to the
thread for the OP. Plus, it may help someone else reading this as
well. If you want, just forward this email to the mailing list.
Dale
:-) :-)
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