On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, econti wrote:
> "Scrolling" my package db I found I have installed many automakes. Here is the
> list:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 664 16 ott 10:36 automake-1.10
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.4_p6
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.5
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.6.3
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.7.9-r1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.8.5-r3
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.9.6-r1
>
> Should it be possible to unmerge the older ones?
I believe that automake is only needed at build time, not at runtime, so
you could unmerge all of them and have the system work. Of course, the
next time you emerged practically anything, it would have to build an
automake. Also, the reason you have so many installed is that they're not
generally compatible with each other. Various packages require different
versions in order to build correctly, and a bunch of magic in portage
deals with this. On the other hand, you probably won't need all of those
versions. If you do:
"emerge --depclean automake"
It'll unmerge some of them (at a guess, 1.4_p6 and 1.9.6-r1, if not
others). If you include --verbose, it'll tell you what packages wanted
each version.
-Daniel
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