From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iiv5Z-0000JL-3s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:52:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9JGeuvD004130; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:40:56 GMT Received: from iabervon.org (iabervon.org [66.92.72.58]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9JGaULT031617 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:36:31 GMT Received: (qmail 28229 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Oct 2007 16:36:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Oct 2007 16:36:30 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:36:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Barkalow To: gentoo help Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many automake? In-Reply-To: <4718A78F.3070305@alice.it> Message-ID: References: <4718A78F.3070305@alice.it> 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 X-Archives-Salt: 9dddd909-1b78-48b3-872d-a2b4531e31c2 X-Archives-Hash: e4a0c463b869e2a32f0b4cede8e4e238 On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, econti wrote: > "Scrolling" my package db I found I have installed many automakes. Here is the > list: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 664 16 ott 10:36 automake-1.10 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.4_p6 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.5 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.6.3 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.7.9-r1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.8.5-r3 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 936 9 feb 2006 automake-1.9.6-r1 > > Should it be possible to unmerge the older ones? I believe that automake is only needed at build time, not at runtime, so you could unmerge all of them and have the system work. Of course, the next time you emerged practically anything, it would have to build an automake. Also, the reason you have so many installed is that they're not generally compatible with each other. Various packages require different versions in order to build correctly, and a bunch of magic in portage deals with this. On the other hand, you probably won't need all of those versions. If you do: "emerge --depclean automake" It'll unmerge some of them (at a guess, 1.4_p6 and 1.9.6-r1, if not others). If you include --verbose, it'll tell you what packages wanted each version. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list