On Wednesday 11 May 2011 23:26:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 12:28 AM, Mick wrote:
> > Having completed the upgrade I noticed that a few packages are being
> > called up
> > 
> > for removal:
> >   sys-apps/dmidecode
> >   
> >      selected: 2.10
> >     
> >     protected: none
> >     
> >       omitted: none
> > 
> > I can't think of it being a dependency - did I emerge it and forgot about
> > it?
> 
> Do you care?  Does it matter? :-)

It probably doesn't matter, but I don't know if it does and was curious.


> > Anyway, this confused me more:
> >    kde-base/okteta
> >    
> >      selected: 4.4.5
> >     
> >     protected: none
> >     
> >       omitted: none
> > 
> > okteta is not my world file.  So something brought it in.  It was not
> > updated to v6, instead when I try to update it manually is asking for a
> > second slot ... is this normal?
> 
> Yes, it's normal.  The slot will be installed, the old slot uninstalled.
>   Btw, okteta is a dep of kdevelop, which is only pulled-in when the
> "okteta" USE flag is enabled.  Maybe that's why you have it installed.

Ah!  Yes, that flag is now not there:

$ euse -i okteta
global use flags (searching: okteta)
************************************************************
no matching entries found

local use flags (searching: okteta)
************************************************************
[-    ] okteta (dev-util/kdevelop):
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Thanks!
-- 
Regards,
Mick