On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:00:43 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:17:06 +0100, David W Noon wrote: [snip] > > The question I think Todd Goodman is trying to ask is why a package > > in world should be a candidate for depclean. > > Because the other slot satisfies the requirements of world, which > contains an unslotted version. But then --update always tries to > installed the newest suitable version. In other words, his system is > broken. In that case, the source of the breakage is almost certainly Portage. If a slotted package is in the world file without a slot specification, Portage should really take that to mean "all installed slots are required" rather than "any slot will do" -- or, worse still, ignore the world entry and fall back to package dependencies. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* [email protected] (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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