[gentoo-user] Re: Slots
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just realized about programs that can be installed in slots. Is there a way for me to find out what programs are installed in more than one slot on my computer? Can I tell if a particular program in a slot is still needed? emerge --prune --pretend world will tell you all packages that have more than one version installed (ie. slotted). As for finding out whether a particular version of a slotted package is still needed or not, well, you could do: emerge --prune pkg emerge -Dv world revdep-rebuild But the above is a bit dangerous, and could break your system. Be careful. Thanks for the information. That is one are where I think Gentoo can definitely improve. Making it so you can tell if removing a package will kill anything. I would imagine this is probably not an easy task though. Jeff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slots
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:10:31 -0800 Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the information. That is one are where I think Gentoo can definitely improve. Making it so you can tell if removing a package will kill anything. You can check whether the package you intend to remove is a dependency of another package ;-) You can do it with equery depends package. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slots
At 21:10 2005.11.26., you wrote: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/05, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just realized about programs that can be installed in slots. Is there a way for me to find out what programs are installed in more than one slot on my computer? Can I tell if a particular program in a slot is still needed? emerge --prune --pretend world will tell you all packages that have more than one version installed (ie. slotted). As for finding out whether a particular version of a slotted package is still needed or not, well, you could do: emerge --prune pkg emerge -Dv world revdep-rebuild But the above is a bit dangerous, and could break your system. Be careful. Thanks for the information. That is one are where I think Gentoo can definitely improve. Making it so you can tell if removing a package will kill anything. I would imagine this is probably not an easy task though. Jeff maybe there should be some options when updating and emerge tries to bring in new slot, see, now i have qt3 and qt4, qt3 was emerged as kde dependence but nothing depends on qt4. so there waste of time and space unless i don't need qt4 for development or whatever. am i right? martins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
