From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:45:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hn8pbu$g2n$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hn8gm0$d1r$1@dough.gmane.org>
On 03/10/2010 06:17 PM, walt wrote:
> 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.
Portage doesn't allow ebuilds to specify minimum versions or ranges for
automake, only exact versions.
Specifying a mininum only works when putting automake as a dep in
DEPEND. However, Gentoo devs are required to use WANT_AUTOMAKE, not
DEPEND and WANT_AUTOMAKE only allows specific versions, not minimum ones.
And this means multiple automake versions on the system are perfectly
normal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-10 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-10 13:50 [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake? Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 14:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-10 16:17 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-03-10 18:45 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2010-03-10 20:04 ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:42 ` walt
2010-03-10 17:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2010-03-10 20:16 ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-10 21:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-03-11 15:46 ` Tanstaafl
2010-03-10 21:09 ` Neil Bothwick
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