From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NpObv-0005Rx-Vv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:18:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDD88E0D61; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7741E0D61 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56ECA1B405D for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:17:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.994 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.994 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.395, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IhCjubL8h5WD for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E061B400F for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpObC-0001s8-Uv for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:17:30 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-193-245.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.193.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:17:30 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-193-245.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:17:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake? Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:17:02 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4B97A3A9.10401@libertytrek.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-193-245.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a3pre) Gecko/20100309 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <4B97A3A9.10401@libertytrek.org> X-Archives-Salt: 281dd341-1541-497a-9501-1cf286f0fbd7 X-Archives-Hash: a2341a080b744f8cec2a4fe7fbc37c80 On 03/10/2010 05:50 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, > and 1.10.2). > > emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my > question is, do I need all 3 versions? > > 'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages, all depending on 1.10* or > higher. > > So, can I safely emerge -C the other 2 versions? Should I (does it even > matter)? Probably won't matter. A few packages actually specify an exact version of the autotools, but most just want a certain minimum version. If you try to install such a package in the future it 'should' re-emerge the required version of autoconf automatically. It might matter more if you want to install custom software independent of the portage system.