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 1DF011381F3 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:00:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C36E4E0CC9; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f177.google.com (mail-ea0-f177.google.com [209.85.215.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A5D1E0BA1 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f177.google.com with SMTP id f15so4418337eak.36 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:19 -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:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kAmCfuaBN1N1ItY1BsH8qulrXeWIzUCIjPjAmkrY0ZE=; b=HBH3YXKwsCQHReMKXXwHNhuocZF68uK/KAnuGrljgIEGCncAlk349cPunev+Ce5KXP 0CZwpoUyECY7wJQUXaQX+ZEJChMu65OiKeVuDdzV+nsfjcl46/JJxLKjD71GDv5TDeAN eiEeOpXoRge2Ri3OVbgaUwJ9P5f7THJL9DJZDszCKEVxNG5md2UuGZ9HtDJ2hinEIZ7a jDf7l2NE9vaSM+1OtYBK/J7gJ2jNvjcu2g2i5ZG11OMwEkl+Oobv4+naVHanz5G0MpP3 BHGI5TMyOUBtc4UT7pZ9gNWusXg7Au94v7CaWeyc6Is3s3mVfoPaCZcsT5Sa7uruY8nF 9ahQ== X-Received: by 10.14.172.133 with SMTP id t5mr4291192eel.35.1379620819224; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:19 -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 i1sm13839495eeg.0.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <523B57DB.3000706@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:00:27 +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: Re: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages References: <523B495A.8010706@gmail.com> <523B5593.8000907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <523B5593.8000907@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: de99c6d6-c75b-44d8-9cc0-25900b038d93 X-Archives-Hash: e628a985d87d3928a700c24c4f245a1b On 09/19/2013 10:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> 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. >> > > > They are not duplicates they are called SLOTS > > And you have them for a reason - one thing needs package A version X, > something else needs package A version Y. Usually, you can have only > one, SLOTS let you have more than one that can co-exist. > > Don't worry about them, let them be. You need them. > > > No worries. Thanks.