Basic question: Why do I need two versions of glibc? The background: After cleaning up non-sys stuff with help of eix-test-obsolete it now shows
Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked): [D] sys-libs/glibc (2.3.4.20040808-r1(i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.2)@08.11.2007 2.6.1 (2.2)@29.12.2007 -> 2.6.1(2.2)): GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library emerge --depclean -p gives me among other things: >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-libs/glibc selected: 2.3.4.20040808-r1 protected: none omitted: 2.6.1 Yesterday I courageously unemerge =glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1. This made my system unbootable. The following thread (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-573767-highlight-unmerged+glibc.html) led me out of there. I`d reinstalled glibc-2.6.1 and now I'm in the same situation as before. equery depends =sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 lists about 30 entries equery depends =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 lists 27 entries of which some are the same some are different. glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 seems to be a leftover from initial install back in 2004. Thanks -- mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nico-beuermann.de gnupg fingerprint: 56DA 4E32 3A4A 52AC B769 DFC2 BF3E 9805 09BB 4259 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list