walt wrote: > Thanks also to wabe and Fernando for your replies. Just for the record > I did the update this morning, which completed without errors. qlop > shows that both updates completed, but eix shows that I now have only > ncurses-5.9-r5 installed. (This is apparently the desired result, but > I'm only guessing what the desired result really is.) I think every > portage tool should announce very clearly whether a package is > slotted/subslotted, and exactly which slot and subslot the package > belongs in. The subject of slots is way too confusing to withhold such > information. If the devs can't explain slots to their users then they > don't understand it themselves. (Hm. That phrase sounds familiar. > Where did I get that?)
I did this the other day, after skipping it several times while it got sorted out, and I have this now. [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r5:0/5 [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99:5/5 Now, which of us is somewhat off the mark here? :/ Dale :-) :-)
