From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from c-24-98-8-129.atl.client2.attbi.com (c-24-98-8-129.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.8.129]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62A4ABD51 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 00:14:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mgilbert by c-24-98-8-129.atl.client2.attbi.com with local (Exim 4.04) id 17PG0R-0004pW-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 01:15:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] missing SLOTs From: Mark Gilbert To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20020713011132.GA4889@endlessrecursion.net> References: <20020627173146.46f36953.jani@iv.ro> <20020713011132.GA4889@endlessrecursion.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 02 Jul 2002 01:15:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1025586914.9777.33.camel@c-24-98-8-129.atl.client2.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: b85e078c-d1cc-4dd6-9787-a6c76526466e X-Archives-Hash: b361f557d7081af9e0a3bc55bc0059ab 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 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. > > -- > /* > * Bob Phan > * Computational Chemistry Informatics > * Neurogen Corporation > * (203)488-8201 x4645 > * > * To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. > * http://www.endlessrecursion.net/ > */ > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev -- <> ...for a brief period in the late ninetys, the rare ability of pulling money out of ones arse flourished