On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 16:53, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I updated to alsa-0.9.8 at portages request last week. However, I've been
> having some problems so I was going to revert to 0.9.2 of alsa. No problem -
> I remove the alsa-driver, oss, utils, tools, etc. for 0.9.8 with emerge -C.
> Then I do an emerge -pv =alsa-driver-0.9.2 =alsa-lib-0.9.2 ... etc.
>
> However the -pv tells me that portage will merge alsa-libs 0.9.2 AND 0.9.8
> because +jack for alsa-libs. Okay, I removed jack from the USE (made it
> -jack and also took it out entirely) flags and removed it from the system
> (unmerged). I still get both alsa-libs in the list.
>
> How do I tell portage I don't want both. I just want 0.9.2?
>
> Thanks.
Brett,
This machine I did for my dad is not acting like you seem to be
describing:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mark $ su -
Password:
gandalf root # emerge -pv =alsa-driver-0.9.2 =alsa-tools-0.9.1
=alsa-oss-0.9.1 =alsa-utils-0.9.2
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.2
[ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.1
[ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-oss-0.9.1
[ebuild R ] media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.2
gandalf root # emerge -Cpv =alsa-driver-0.9.2 =alsa-tools-0.9.1
=alsa-oss-0.9.1 =alsa-utils-0.9.2
>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:
media-sound/alsa-utils
selected: 0.9.2
protected: none
omitted: none
media-libs/alsa-oss
selected: 0.9.1
protected: none
omitted: none
media-sound/alsa-tools
selected: 0.9.1
protected: none
omitted: none
media-sound/alsa-driver
selected: 0.9.2
protected: none
omitted: none
>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.
gandalf root # emerge -Cpv alsa-driver alsa-tools alsa-oss
alsa-utils
>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:
media-sound/alsa-utils
selected: 0.9.2
protected: none
omitted: none
media-libs/alsa-oss
selected: 0.9.1
protected: none
omitted: none
media-sound/alsa-tools
selected: 0.9.1
protected: none
omitted: none
media-sound/alsa-driver
selected: 0.9.2
protected: none
omitted: none
>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.
gandalf root #
I read the info above that it is possible to have only 0.9.2/1
installed. I'm thinking that possibly you have an application installed
that requires something higher than 0.9.2?
Not sure at all why you cannot do what I'm doing with this machine.
Sorry,
Mark
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