Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Neil Bothwick writes:

> On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> 
> > No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also
> > remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated
> > dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge
> > libreoffice, which I avoided.
> > Next, I updated chromium, which also remerged libreoffice. Again.
> > 
> > And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge
> > libreoffice. Happens with all the packages I tried, which are
> > adobe-flash, python, zsh, xterm.
> 
> If portage believes LO needs to be rebuilt, it will try to do so
> whichever packages you are emerging, just let it happen. 

I already did that, twice, when updating portage and chromium. emerge
still wants to remerge libreoffice whenever I upgrade a package.

> With a suitable
> --jobs setting, portage will emerge all the other packages before LO is
> done.

No, at least with portage, the installation happened after libreoffice was
installed.

weird ~ # emerge -1uaj portage

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  r  U  ] app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.2-r1 [4.1.2.2]
[ebuild     U  ] sys-apps/portage-2.2.7 [2.2.0_alpha188]
[...]
>>> Emerging (1 of 2) app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.2-r1
>>> Emerging (2 of 2) sys-apps/portage-2.2.7
>>> Installing (1 of 2) app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.2-r1
>>> Installing (2 of 2) sys-apps/portage-2.2.7
>>> Jobs: 2 of 2 complete            Load avg: 3.06, 2.76, 2.63

	Alex