On 03/10/2010 06:17 PM, walt wrote:
On 03/10/2010 05:50 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
Hello,
I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3,
and 1.10.2).
emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my
question is, do I need all 3 versions?
'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages, all depending on 1.10* or
higher.
So, can I safely emerge -C the other 2 versions? Should I (does it even
matter)?
Probably won't matter. A few packages actually specify an exact version
of the autotools, but most just want a certain minimum version.
Portage doesn't allow ebuilds to specify minimum versions or ranges for
automake, only exact versions.
Specifying a mininum only works when putting automake as a dep in
DEPEND. However, Gentoo devs are required to use WANT_AUTOMAKE, not
DEPEND and WANT_AUTOMAKE only allows specific versions, not minimum ones.
And this means multiple automake versions on the system are perfectly
normal.
