From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eg6iL-00001d-D4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:32:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAQKVAPK026284; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:31:10 GMT Received: from smtp2.delfi.lv (smtp2.delfi.lv [195.2.96.244]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAQKPdFU032363 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:25:40 GMT Received: from suzukiton.ml.lv ([62.85.19.80]) by smtp2.delfi.lv (8.13.3/8.13.3/8.8.0) with ESMTP id jAQKPUiX054257 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:25:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from mar@ml.lv) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20051126221329.01ccdf48@pop.ml.lv> X-Sender: mar@pop.ml.lv (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:25:33 +0200 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Martins Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slots In-Reply-To: References: <7573e9640511261032q545fa993kcf85e0ef8098ba69@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -2.4 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 195.2.96.244 X-Archives-Salt: 141c4f93-81d4-45da-b0ed-82c767e11988 X-Archives-Hash: f19f52949459cfeeaea2acdd98df3c7c At 21:10 2005.11.26., you wrote: >Richard Fish wrote: > > >On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman 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 > >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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list