* Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> [120328 11:28]: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Todd Goodman <t...@bonedaddy.net> wrote: > > * Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> [120328 11:06]: > >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:15:19 -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: > >> > >> > x11-libs/fltk is in world. > >> > >> Why? > > > > Don't know. Probably forgot the -1 at some point or needed it for some > > software outside of Gentoo. > > > >> > >> > Or have I broken my system? > >> > >> Probably. There is rarely a good reason for having libraries in world. > > > > Fine, but it hardly seems that it's broken just because there's a > > library in world? > > Remove it from world, and try an emerge -p --depclean.
No offense, but I wasn't really asking how to remove packages from my system if I need both slots for some reason. It wants to then depclean both versions (no surprise there.) > > Having the library in world ties you to a particular name for that > library, among (potentially) other things. That could conceivably lead > to ping-ponging if an update moves it away from some piece of that > original description, and than another update notices that it's > missing. Yes, of course if the ebuild names change then it's a possible problem. The same for an ebuild for a package that isn't a library. It still seems broken for emerge to want to install both versions in slots and then turn around and remove one of them immediately afterwards. Todd
