Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slots

[Martins <mar@ml.lv>]

At 21:10 2005.11.26., you wrote:
>Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>
> >On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman <jeff@stikman.com> wrote:
> >> I have just realized about programs that can be installed in slots.
> >> Is there a way for me to find out what programs are installed in more
> >> than one slot on my computer?  Can I tell if a particular program in a
> >> slot is still needed?
> >
> >"emerge --prune --pretend world" will tell you all packages that have
> >more than one version installed (ie. slotted).
> >
> >As for finding out whether a particular version of a slotted package
> >is still needed or not, well, you could do:
> >
> >emerge --prune <pkg>
> >emerge -Dv world
> >revdep-rebuild
> >
> >But the above is a bit dangerous, and could break your system.  Be careful.
>
>Thanks for the information.  That is one are where I think Gentoo can
>definitely improve.  Making it so you can tell if removing a package
>will kill anything.  I would imagine this is probably not an easy task
>though.
>
>Jeff

maybe there should be some options when updating and emerge tries to bring 
in new slot, see, now i have qt3 and qt4, qt3 was emerged as kde dependence 
but nothing depends on qt4. so there waste of time and space unless i don't 
need qt4 for development or whatever. am i right?

martins

   

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