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 1Eg4w7-0002gi-BH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:38:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAQIbFLY014488; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:37:15 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAQIWox7016625 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:32:51 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i34so1369233wra for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:32:50 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=iymIiEte53RSunQANvQqFEj4qQgphiD2D+7nFbQcojLMH5u2TAM17wJpaMxoqfouQp1+td4D1E0vcEjRxbQvDagjV5LtJRyL9vRSAkm9FHuh9PzOexIlC3WttbHTkx3T526CmsdzHkr6YjY1kYgbZVSvf1P7ePfO5LbUyrLBT8M= Received: by 10.54.107.10 with SMTP id f10mr7401419wrc; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:32:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.126.13 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:32:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640511261032q545fa993kcf85e0ef8098ba69@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:32:50 -0700 From: Richard Fish Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Slots In-Reply-To: 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jAQIWox7016625 X-Archives-Salt: d967e047-2b03-4b60-a93c-54a848c3bd6a X-Archives-Hash: cb9308b98151ed2cf437cac49f1f6083 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. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list