On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:00:43 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:17:06 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > The question I think Todd Goodman is trying to ask is why a package
> > in world should be a candidate for depclean.
> 
> Because the other slot satisfies the requirements of world, which
> contains an unslotted version. But then --update always tries to
> installed the newest suitable version. In other words, his system is
> broken.

In that case, the source of the breakage is almost certainly Portage.

If a slotted package is in the world file without a slot specification,
Portage should really take that to mean "all installed slots are
required" rather than "any slot will do" -- or, worse still, ignore the
world entry and fall back to package dependencies.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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