From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A981381F3 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0192AE0BD9; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f169.google.com (mail-ea0-f169.google.com [209.85.215.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA8EDE0AFC for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:58:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f169.google.com with SMTP id k11so4440341eaj.28 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:58:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type; bh=jJDURyK+E+5LpVtXJzzhJYfYC1DfhkMnFth8WLnjcTY=; b=OmePrrO221QAx6l7A4jtbE9WSVKZ3oH2mEDpRZTB69asZrA8gnxu/zBN5C/EwNFXer HOsybT2aUB9yq+gVuT9SVImPee6H4NYihq2gisGOjGjva+WLiqT8hFRTtJlJnanSpaeA FT2LEP3dPvg/rWikB//OiVMygMBOI/AVXWFpR/tLWsqWL0sTVErx5f0YWtNmE1fOcdPP u74tAJHKJUYbhS3GK10+jYzL6026YWiloFnOyzNtg1Pt1DeRvuN1rjToFEhY8ba7cBWu EIJLQpDNKw3iVj0481x/kLfILZ9AW54tpffIL8Lx/0qR6LTOC9/rFew6FM+9W+CmHtrW 1AuA== X-Received: by 10.14.4.1 with SMTP id 1mr3978380eei.21.1379617106354; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (213-154-212-42.static.vega-ua.net. [213.154.212.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id k7sm13452616eeg.13.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <523B495A.8010706@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:58:34 +0300 From: Alexander Kapshuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130831 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040807080908080505040702" X-Archives-Salt: 0152d14e-27b4-4702-9160-ad4fb3cc25f1 X-Archives-Hash: 7b2fe3aff7c849f6bba95c0e6cd28fd3 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040807080908080505040702 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case. Perhaps, the reason for having duplicate packages is the fact that various packages I have installed on the system may require a different version of a package I may already have installed. Is that it? _box0=; equery list --duplicates '*' * Searching for * ... [IP-] [ ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r6:4.1.2 [IP-] [ ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.4-r2:4.4 [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-3.2.5-r2:3.2 [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8y:0.9.8 [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1e-r1:0 [IP-] [ ] media-libs/lcms-1.19:0 [IP-] [ ] media-libs/lcms-2.3:2 [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13:2.1 [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.69:2.5 [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.3:1.10 [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.12.6:1.12 [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.13.4:1.13 [IP-] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13:3.8.13 [IP-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.7:3.10.7 [IP-] [ ] virtual/libusb-0:0 [IP-] [ ] virtual/libusb-1:1 [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.17:2 [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/gtk+-3.4.4:3 [IP-] [ ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.1-r200:0 [IP-] [ ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.1-r300:3 _ Thanks. --------------040807080908080505040702 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy,

Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case.

Perhaps, the reason for having duplicate packages is the fact that various packages I have installed on the system may require a different version of a package I may already have installed. Is that it?

box0=; equery list --duplicates '*'
 * Searching for * ...
[IP-] [  ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r6:4.1.2
[IP-] [  ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.4-r2:4.4
[IP-] [  ] dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7
[IP-] [  ] dev-lang/python-3.2.5-r2:3.2
[IP-] [  ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8y:0.9.8
[IP-] [  ] dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1e-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] media-libs/lcms-1.19:0
[IP-] [  ] media-libs/lcms-2.3:2
[IP-] [  ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13:2.1
[IP-] [  ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.69:2.5
[IP-] [  ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.3:1.10
[IP-] [  ] sys-devel/automake-1.12.6:1.12
[IP-] [  ] sys-devel/automake-1.13.4:1.13
[IP-] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13:3.8.13
[IP-] [  ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.7:3.10.7
[IP-] [  ] virtual/libusb-0:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/libusb-1:1
[IP-] [  ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.17:2
[IP-] [  ] x11-libs/gtk+-3.4.4:3
[IP-] [  ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.1-r200:0
[IP-] [  ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.1-r300:3

Thanks.

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