On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, walt wrote:
> qlop shows that both updates completed, but eix shows that I now have
> only ncurses-5.9-r5 installed. (This is apparently the desired
> result, but I'm only guessing what the desired result really is.)
The desired output depends on what other packages you have installed but
for me it's having both ncurses-5.9-r5 ncurses-5.9-r99.
> I think every portage tool should announce very clearly whether a
> package is slotted/subslotted, and exactly which slot and subslot the
> package belongs in. The subject of slots is way too confusing to
> withhold such information. If the devs can't explain slots to their
> users then they don't understand it themselves. (Hm. That phrase
> sounds familiar. Where did I get that?)
>
I don't know why your portage display is different than mine, I always run
portage in verbose mode and it clearly shows me subslots:
# emerge -uDUva @world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5:0/5::gentoo [5.9-r3:0/0::gentoo]
USE="..." ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 2,761 KiB
[ebuild NS ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99:5::gentoo [5.9-r3:0::gentoo]
USE="..." ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB
