On 09/19/2013 10:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear >> about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more >> recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case. >> >> Perhaps, the reason for having duplicate packages is the fact that >> various packages I have installed on the system may require a different >> version of a package I may already have installed. Is that it? >> >> _box0=; equery list --duplicates '*' >> * Searching for * ... >> [IP-] [ ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r6:4.1.2 >> [IP-] [ ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.4-r2:4.4 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-3.2.5-r2:3.2 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8y:0.9.8 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1e-r1:0 >> [IP-] [ ] media-libs/lcms-1.19:0 >> [IP-] [ ] media-libs/lcms-2.3:2 >> [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13:2.1 >> [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.69:2.5 >> [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.10.3:1.10 >> [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.12.6:1.12 >> [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.13.4:1.13 >> [IP-] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13:3.8.13 >> [IP-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.7:3.10.7 >> [IP-] [ ] virtual/libusb-0:0 >> [IP-] [ ] virtual/libusb-1:1 >> [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.17:2 >> [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/gtk+-3.4.4:3 >> [IP-] [ ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.1-r200:0 >> [IP-] [ ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-3.0.1-r300:3 >> _ >> Thanks. >> > > > They are not duplicates they are called SLOTS > > And you have them for a reason - one thing needs package A version X, > something else needs package A version Y. Usually, you can have only > one, SLOTS let you have more than one that can co-exist. > > Don't worry about them, let them be. You need them. > > > No worries.
Thanks.
