From: Mark Gilbert <webmaster@dofty.zzn.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] missing SLOTs
Date: 02 Jul 2002 01:15:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1025586914.9777.33.camel@c-24-98-8-129.atl.client2.attbi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020713011132.GA4889@endlessrecursion.net>
Eh, problem with hdparm is that 5.2 is being merged in /usr/sbin while
4.9 sits in /sbin.
-MG
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 21:11, Bob Phan wrote:
> * On Jun 27, 2002, Jani Monoses <jani@iv.ro> said:
> > After looking at why emerge clean wouldn't get rid of older hdparm and openssh I found that
> > the ebuilds for the old versions didn't have a SLOT so portage assumes nothing != 0 and
> > keeps both versions.
> > But aren't all ebuilds supposed to have SLOT defined?
> > Maybe temporarily until all such cases are fixed emerge could presume missing slot means 0?
>
> Generally speaking, it is better to assume too little than too much.
> Let's say that there is a library that you want to keep around without a
> slot and one of the same name at slot 0 (hypothetically, because I can't
> come up with an actual instance of this). Each and every time you try
> to clean your packages, it annoyingly uninstalls the unslotted package.
> On the other hand, you notice that one package didn't get uninstalled
> that you think should have been. You go ahead and uninstall the package
> and never hear from it again. That's why the current model is safer, at
> the cost of a single minor annoyance as opposed to repeated annoyance.
>
> But I do agree that all packages should be slotted and, if I'm not
> mistaken, they'll all have slots eventually. It's just a matter of
> waiting it out.
>
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2002-06-27 17:31 [gentoo-dev] missing SLOTs Jani Monoses
2002-07-13 1:11 ` Bob Phan
2002-07-02 5:15 ` Mark Gilbert [this message]
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