[gentoo-user] emerge -c being strange

[gentoo-user] emerge -c being strange

[Jack]

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I have both wine-vanilla 8.0.2 (stable) and 8.1.2 (testing) installed.  
"emerge -c wine-vanilla" would remove both of them. "emerge -c 
wine-vanilla:8.21" refuses, claiming

app-emulation/wine-vanilla-8.21 pulled in by:
    virtual/wine-0-r10 requires 
app-emulation/wine-vanilla[abi_x86_32,abi_x86_64]

Although it is perfectly happy with "emerge -c wine-vanilla:8.0.2".

Is this a bug, or is it considered reasonable for portage to have a 
virtual absolutely insist on keeping the newest installed version if 
several slots are available?

Jack

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -c being strange

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday, 30 December 2023 21:10:10 GMT Jack wrote:
> I have both wine-vanilla 8.0.2 (stable) and 8.1.2 (testing) installed. 
> "emerge -c wine-vanilla" would remove both of them. "emerge -c
> wine-vanilla:8.21" refuses, claiming
> 
> app-emulation/wine-vanilla-8.21 pulled in by:
>     virtual/wine-0-r10 requires
> app-emulation/wine-vanilla[abi_x86_32,abi_x86_64]
> 
> Although it is perfectly happy with "emerge -c wine-vanilla:8.0.2".
> 
> Is this a bug, or is it considered reasonable for portage to have a
> virtual absolutely insist on keeping the newest installed version if
> several slots are available?

No, it's how it's supposed to work. Portage removed one version of wine 
because the virtual was still satisfied. It wouldn't remove the last remaining 
version: you need to uninstall the virtual first.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -c being strange

[Jack]

On 2023.12.30 18:21, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 December 2023 21:10:10 GMT Jack wrote:
> > I have both wine-vanilla 8.0.2 (stable) and 8.1.2 (testing)  
> installed.
> > "emerge -c wine-vanilla" would remove both of them. "emerge -c
> > wine-vanilla:8.21" refuses, claiming
> >
> > app-emulation/wine-vanilla-8.21 pulled in by:
> >     virtual/wine-0-r10 requires
> > app-emulation/wine-vanilla[abi_x86_32,abi_x86_64]
> >
> > Although it is perfectly happy with "emerge -c wine-vanilla:8.0.2".
> >
> > Is this a bug, or is it considered reasonable for portage to have a
> > virtual absolutely insist on keeping the newest installed version if
> > several slots are available?
> 
> No, it's how it's supposed to work. Portage removed one version of  
> wine
> because the virtual was still satisfied. It wouldn't remove the last  
> remaining
> version: you need to uninstall the virtual first.
Sorry, but I did NOT actually remove 8.0.2, I was only checking what it  
WOULD remove.  With both installed, portage is OK to remove both or the  
older one, but not the newer one.