From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NpPNS-0008Hc-Rg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6295BE0979; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FBFEE0979 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 576E5364E51 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:05:19 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:05:08 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake? Message-ID: <20100310170508.7617f250@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B97A3A9.10401@libertytrek.org> References: <4B97A3A9.10401@libertytrek.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs32 (GTK+ 2.18.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/xYxzdEg9fndvHNZZjCQ83DF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 875b5198-b89f-41ba-91d0-fa98a7dd06cf X-Archives-Hash: abed7cb36ef3caa1801a1e173df622a0 --Sig_/xYxzdEg9fndvHNZZjCQ83DF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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). >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner? --Sig_/xYxzdEg9fndvHNZZjCQ83DF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuX0U0ACgkQum4al0N1GQOlWQCfcwtX13rq2hh1BJY1feeSKHRV tCAAoNUsFqw17lgpRrFk42RW18pCbLgU =6wiI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/xYxzdEg9fndvHNZZjCQ83DF--