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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Time with Ramereth: autoconf / automake / libtool bunnies Date: Tuesday 01 February 2005 23:34 From: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gentoo Develop Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [some dev please forward this to gentoo-user] it seems our new SLOT-ed ebuilds of autoconf / automake / libtool have users confused. 'why does emerge want to install so many !?' you ask yourself outloud. the truth is, nothing has changed on your system, you just *think* something is different. the old ebuilds (autoconf-2.59-r5 / automake-1.8.5-r1 / libtool-1.5.2-r7) actually downloaded and installed multiple versions of each package. you *thought* you had just one autoconf, but boy oh boy were you wrong ! in the future i'd like to make package maintainers be a little less lazy and declare what version of autoconf / automake / libtool they wish to run in their ebuilds so that, in the normal scheme of things, you only have the versions installed on your system that you need ... perhaps a pipe dream, but when you live with Ramereth, you need them :( -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list ------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
