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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:05:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100310170508.7617f250@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B97A3A9.10401@libertytrek.org>

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:50:33 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

> I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3,
> and 1.10.2).
> 
> emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my
> question is, do I need all 3 versions?
> 'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages,
> all depending on 1.10* or higher.
> 
> So, can I safely emerge -C the other 2 versions? Should I (does it even
> matter)?

equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one of
both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't
he just buy dinner?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-10 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 13:50 [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake? Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 14:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-10 16:17 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-03-10 18:45   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-10 20:04     ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:42     ` walt
2010-03-10 17:05 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-03-10 20:16   ` [gentoo-user] " Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:03     ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-10 21:05     ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-03-11 15:46       ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:09     ` Neil Bothwick

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