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 1OV1GF-0002AL-F9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:51:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A013BE0A90; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 11:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EA4E0A90 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 11:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so2233050gyg.40 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:51:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=g7mE6scD34S6bbflcaWEpN7zVBr67bmZbkS4ceUWUYY=; b=a+yL6v++uvuCsS0UBhnwMZpOpfHcPxcOnxkwD5D6jwIP2+uhB0x8Qq7+ix/U+PUEkI Y8gNYepIWJT7Tu3/mb9x4wGFjQB79SizzrhZvvF+VFcYp96DXF+26pyi0lcemh7cTmQC F2aFHZORXg57BuinWffNHwf2AxFN5b5JbThis= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=x1ChZmoz3NxhGXw2DzoSavdCaQeqvGkq3q20bXFUrS7wKcwkxUSUo3jt+oYuLOfJl+ s2iQD6Qa/PKvR/upQR1UasXtur6yA5Au7NeXwIEt+pUYvzxev/OAFriXIMpjoLtIuL++ EBxtwGX3CEtw7g2vY1SruYIpDSNihnXaeOojs= Received: by 10.100.95.17 with SMTP id s17mr184448anb.177.1278157906100; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:51:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-109-128.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.109.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i30sm15892899anh.9.2010.07.03.04.51.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2F2450.4080109@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:51:44 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100630 Gentoo/2.0.5 SeaMonkey/2.0.5 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44? References: <87oceqe3tx.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <20100702150130.560cac40@dartworks.biz> <4C2E6CFA.8040505@gmail.com> <877hld9hx1.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <877hld9hx1.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30208f44-55f5-452f-94b2-5e8efd89b19c X-Archives-Hash: fb3b0cff01a59d645b5be63808bd32ff Graham Murray wrote: > Dale writes: > > >> This appears to be the opposite of a upgrade. He has a package that >> wants the OLD slotted version of libpng not the NEW slotted version. >> If I understand that correctly, he has already done the upgrade but >> now something needs the old package installed in addition to the new >> one. >> > As it happens the issue was moot for me, but I am sure that some people > were caught out. I said 'No' to the 'emerge -auDvN @world' and > waited. Later I saw a new bugzilla entry > (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326583) about unneeded opera > dependency on libpng. So I waited until after the fix was announced and > in the tree and resynced, and it no longer wanted to install > libpng-1.2.44. > > That works too. Should also be better in the long run. Whew, glad that is over. Nothing worse than having to go through a nasty upgrade just to have to do it again later. ;-) Dale :-) :-)