On 2005-02-26 13:02:45 -0500 (Sat, Feb), A. Khattri wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> They probably haven't been removed during autoclean, it doesn't remove >> slotted packages > > How to tell if they are SLOTted?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] case $ etcat versions gtk+ [ Results for search key : gtk+ ] [ Candidate applications found : 9 ] Only printing found installed programs. * x11-libs/gtk+ : [ ] 1.2.10-r10 (1) [ I] 1.2.10-r11 (1) [ ] 2.4.9-r1 (2) [M ] 2.4.9-r2 (2) [ ] 2.4.13-r1 (2) [ I] 2.4.14 (2) [M~ ] 2.6.1-r1 (2) [M~ ] 2.6.1-r2 (2) [M~ ] 2.6.2 (2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] case $ etcat versions wesnoth [ Results for search key : wesnoth ] [ Candidate applications found : 2 ] Only printing found installed programs. * games-strategy/wesnoth : [ I] 0.8.10 (0) [ ] 0.8.11 (0) The number in parentheses is the SLOT. If it's (0) then the package is not slotted. Gtk+ (for example) has two slots: (1) and (2) - as you can see I have boh installed. >> Which is the very issue that causes me to wonder if the packages in >> question are in fact 'unnecessary' duplicates, or in fact necessary >> slotted instances of the program or programs in question (like the >> autoconf/automake issue, or even slotted versions of KDE). > > Yes, I was thinking that too. > Have you tried 'emerge -pv --depclean' ?
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