Thanks for your response and I don't mean to be snipy in my response, I just want to clarify why I do care and 'don't worry' isn't satisfactory to me. Maybe it should be and I just have to live with it or find a solution myself...
I unmerge'd gnome 1.4 before I upgraded to gnome 2. I have AUTOCLEAN set to yes in my /etc/make.conf (my disk fills up quite a bit and I like to keep things as clean as possilbe) and I don't know if portage's idea of cleaning out older or overlapping packages includes wiping slots clean. Actually, I've never been entirely clear what a slot even is, simply an older version of a software package??? Since I don't seem to have a gnome 1.4 library that is needed (gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2) since emerge -up --deep world is reporting it, it seems that something in gnome would not be working quite right since a required library is missing. I would like to know what that thing is. I don't care to have old versions of software (gnome-1.4, binary or source) laying around unless I really have no alternative. In my naive understanding, it seems that if portage is able to tell me that something need software package x is should be able to tell me what that something is. Lloyd On 10 Mar 2003 14:51:25 +0100 Arturo di Gioia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:05, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: > > I have a package (gnome-panel) that shows up as needing to be downgraded (from > > 2.2.0.1-r1 to 1.4.2-r2) when I do an 'emerge -up --deep world'. Is there a way in > > portage to figure out what depends on the old version of a package so that I could > > either unmerge it or update it or at least ignore it in confidence that nothing is > > subtely broken? Thanks. > > > > Lloyd > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > This is a recurring topic (I asked it a couple of months ago). The fact > is that gnome 1.4 and gnome 2 reside on different 'slots' (they can > coexist, just like KDE 3.0 and 3.1), so portage isn't really downgrading > your gnome2 packet, but it's upgrading the 1.4 one which was installed > either because you emerged gnome 1.4 or because some app required the > old version of gnome-panel as a dependency (so don't worry). > > > -- > Arturo di Gioia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
