Georgi Georgiev posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:17:56 +0900:
> maillog: 02/02/2005-09:05:59(+0100): foser types >> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:34 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > >> > it seems our new SLOT-ed ebuilds of autoconf / automake / libtool have >> > users confused. 'why does emerge want to install so many !?' you ask >> > yourself outloud. the truth is, nothing has changed on your system, >> > you just *think* something is different. >> > >> > the old ebuilds (autoconf-2.59-r5 / automake-1.8.5-r1 / >> > libtool-1.5.2-r7) actually downloaded and installed multiple versions >> > of each package. you *thought* you had just one autoconf, but boy oh >> > boy were you wrong ! >> >> On any self built system you will probably need every version anyway, so >> yeah it's dream. > > Do you mean that the packages in "system" require all versions anyway? If > the packages in "system" can go without some particular version, then I am > pretty sure that it *should* be possible to go without that version. I don't believe /every/ version is required, nor do I think /every/ version was previously installed. At least, when I upgraded to the new version recently, most were labeled as upgrade, but a couple were labeled as new, which I took to mean they weren't previously installed. (Being a bit familiar with the idea of having multiple versions around from my time on Mandrake, however, and why it worked that way, having so many didn't alarm me here. I just noted with curiosity that it was merging a couple versions marked as "new" and wondered why they were "new" instead of "upgrade", assuming simply that nothing had required them before, but a new arrangement was merging the latest version of each one, now, as part of "system", which made sense to me. That's why I noted they were "new" and not upgrades. I was surprised not by how many there were, but that a couple versions hadn't been merged before and were showing up as "new", while the rest were all upgrade as I expected.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- [email protected] mailing list
