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 1Eg5be-00057P-QE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:21:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAQJJC4X007788; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:19:12 GMT Received: from apple.stikman.com (cip-68-208.bbs.surfcity.net [66.116.68.208]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAQJAV3v012946 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:10:31 GMT Received: from jeff-beta ([10.10.10.150]) by apple.stikman.com (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAQJAVfJ000842 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:10:31 -0800 From: Jeff Grossman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Slots Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:10:31 -0800 Organization: Stikman.com Message-ID: References: <7573e9640511261032q545fa993kcf85e0ef8098ba69@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 trialware 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7adfd27d-ac28-41f4-9934-55edc019003c X-Archives-Hash: 5e886efd400b54e4b2bdd91998ed7361 Richard Fish wrote: >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. Thanks for the information. That is one are where I think Gentoo can definitely improve. Making it so you can tell if removing a package will kill anything. I would imagine this is probably not an easy task though. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list 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 1Eg5jg-000234-Gh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:29:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAQJReBv020455; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:27:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAQJLVZ9020966 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:21:32 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eg5c3-0004rE-Lj for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:21:31 +0000 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Eg5bG-0001PW-QT for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:20:42 +0100 Received: from cip-68-208.bbs.surfcity.net ([66.116.68.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:20:42 +0100 Received: from jeff by cip-68-208.bbs.surfcity.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:20:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Jeff Grossman Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Slots Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:10:31 -0800 Organization: Stikman.com Message-ID: References: <7573e9640511261032q545fa993kcf85e0ef8098ba69@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cip-68-208.bbs.surfcity.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 trialware Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5587283e-241a-454b-9bae-89c6831707a2 X-Archives-Hash: 136db49e1b259c1839d40db0797254af Message-ID: <20051126191031.GM76ELUD0AMLDacDTbKlHuCTyeC0Rh7p0gzCGMHNyxQ@z> Richard Fish wrote: >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. Thanks for the information. That is one are where I think Gentoo can definitely improve. Making it so you can tell if removing a package will kill anything. I would imagine this is probably not an easy task though. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list