On 09/02/2017 13:49, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > On Thursday, 09. Feb 2017, 12:24:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 09/02/2017 11:52, Bertram Scharpf wrote: >>> On Thursday, 09. Feb 2017, 00:35:05 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 22:52:51 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: >>>> >>>>> Every time I try to do an upgrade, it wants to pull >>>>> in the former PostgreSQL into an own slot: >>>>> >>>>> # emerge -avuDN @world >>>>> ... >>>>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>>>> [ebuild NS ] dev-db/postgresql-9.5.5:9.5::gentoo >>>>> [9.6.0:9.6::gentoo] USE="..." ... ... >>>>> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] >>>>> >>>>> How can I find out why this happens? >>>> >>>> Add --tree to you emerge invocation. >>> >>> There seems to be no dependency at all!? >> >> That usually means you have the package in your world file > > $ grep postgres /var/lib/portage/world | uniq -c > 1 dev-db/postgresql > > This does not specify a version. I only want 9.6, not 9.5.
equery depends postgresql This scours the tree to find deps, it doesn't mean *your* system will use all of them. With that output, we start looking to see which apply to you -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com