Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Just doing a little house cleaning here. Sort of curious about this tho:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p --depclean
<SNIP>
dev-lang/python
selected: 2.4.4-r13
protected: none
omitted: 2.5.2-r5
<SNIP>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13
[ Searching for packages depending on =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13... ]
app-admin/gamin-0.1.9-r1 (python? virtual/python)
app-office/openoffice-2.4.1 (>=dev-lang/python-2.3.4)
<SNIP>
sys-apps/file-4.23 (virtual/python)
sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc3 (>=dev-lang/python-2.4)
sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.12 (python? dev-lang/python)
sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r11 (python? >=virtual/python-2.2.1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
I notice some depend on the new python which should be OK since it is
staying but is it safe to remove the old python?
Also, I know the kernels are safe but what about subversion, apr and
friends? I thought portage used subversion or something?
While I am at it, can equery tell me what depends on that specific version
of a package? It seems to just list everything that depends on python
period the way I am doing it now. Is there a better tool to check on this?
Thanks
Dale
I'm seeing the same thing here Dale. I got past my problems from
yesterday by first using the older version of python-updater, then
removing the old python, emerging the new python-updater and running
python-updater again. After all of that I have the same two versions
installed that you do and haven't figured out if this stuff is really
'slotted' in the sense that different programs actually require the
older version and cannot use the newer version.
Question: Same as you. How do you check what slotted package something
else is really using? revdep-rebuild possibly?
- Mark
Hi Mark,
Well, I may update my backup and give it a try. I'll rebuild portage
again juuuuuusssst in case tho. ;-)
revdep-rebuild is just for fixing broke stuff. I'm thinking eix may be
able to help but not real sure about it either.
Dale
:-) :-)
