On 2005-02-26 13:02:45 -0500 (Sat, Feb), A. Khattri wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> They probably haven't been removed during autoclean, it doesn't remove >> slotted packages > > How to tell if they are SLOTted?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] case $ etcat versions gtk+
[ Results for search key : gtk+ ]
[ Candidate applications found : 9 ]
Only printing found installed programs.
* x11-libs/gtk+ :
[ ] 1.2.10-r10 (1)
[ I] 1.2.10-r11 (1)
[ ] 2.4.9-r1 (2)
[M ] 2.4.9-r2 (2)
[ ] 2.4.13-r1 (2)
[ I] 2.4.14 (2)
[M~ ] 2.6.1-r1 (2)
[M~ ] 2.6.1-r2 (2)
[M~ ] 2.6.2 (2)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] case $ etcat versions wesnoth
[ Results for search key : wesnoth ]
[ Candidate applications found : 2 ]
Only printing found installed programs.
* games-strategy/wesnoth :
[ I] 0.8.10 (0)
[ ] 0.8.11 (0)
The number in parentheses is the SLOT. If it's (0) then the package is
not slotted. Gtk+ (for example) has two slots: (1) and (2) - as you can
see I have boh installed.
>> Which is the very issue that causes me to wonder if the packages in
>> question are in fact 'unnecessary' duplicates, or in fact necessary
>> slotted instances of the program or programs in question (like the
>> autoconf/automake issue, or even slotted versions of KDE).
>
> Yes, I was thinking that too.
>
Have you tried 'emerge -pv --depclean' ?
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