From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Htaip-0005xs-AV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 02:49:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4V2logu016571; Thu, 31 May 2007 02:47:50 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4V2hBQB011279 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 02:43:11 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96331FC91 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 02:43:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id UNSDfdrtNN8a for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 02:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.119] (adsl-65-65-35-81.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [65.65.35.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688061FCCA for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 02:43:09 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf? Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:43:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart35782211.bLTuq95KeK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705302143.07697.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 2ed94fe3-4e41-4e0e-a688-b64207671681 X-Archives-Hash: f21f9990f6aa023713882545a4d33ad8 --nextPart35782211.bLTuq95KeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:23:00 Denis wrote: > Why are there multiple versions of java-config, autoconf, and > automake shown on my system? They are incompatible, slotted, and each slot is individually required (or = was=20 at some time). > There could be other multi-version=20 > packages... Is this normal for portage that is configured to > autoclean? Yes. Autoclean doesn't uninstall versions in a different slot. I'm not su= re=20 about depclean. > If so, I find it rather interesting that packages would=20 > depend on so many different versions of automake, for instance! HA. autohell is that way because there's little backward or forward=20 compatibility. (Well, that and m4.) =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ =20 --nextPart35782211.bLTuq95KeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGXjY755pqL7G1QFkRAs9EAKCRK/S67O7UA492WO5lHSx3MvDcJwCeNkch 7rQe12zSb63WMVem9LRTlp0= =E8HX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart35782211.bLTuq95KeK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list