Bo Ørsted Andresen ha scritto: > On Sunday 26 August 2007 23:25:48 b.n. wrote: >> By the way, eix tells me that expat 2.0.1 is stable, but emerge -pv >> world doesn't ask me to update expat. Is it ok (does it mean no package >> actually needs 2.0.1 ?) ? > > 1) Nothing does depend on expat-2.0.1. A lot of packages do, however, depend > on expat and when a new version changes the ABI and removes the previous > version, everything that uses expat needs to be recompiled against that > ABI.
Yes, this was absolutely clear. I was just puzzled about people talking about that update when I saw no update coming. > 2) Even if something did strictly require 2.0.1 portage doesn't do deep > dependency resolution without --deep which also happens to upgrade > everything to the newest visible version. OK, now I recalled. It's a lot I don't use --deep just for avoiding those things as long as possible, therefore my Portage knowledges became a bit rusty. Thanks. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
