duplicates of packages

maxmc · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 2:10 am Post subject: duplicates of packages

These are my current duplicates

diskmuncher · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Denver, CO

The "kicker" is that not all of these are truly duplicates...but the dependency list of these programs (qpkg -q) may not be accurate. Add to that the whole concept of SLOTS and you have a formula for mass confusion. ;-)

For instance, glib-1.2 and glib-2.2 are not "true" duplicates...different programs on your system may require each one. Many gnome utilities may still insist on gnome 1.x libraries even though you probably have either ~x86 or emerged gnome-2 (thus, you'll end up with control-center 1.4 and 2.0, panel-1.4 and 2.0, vfs-1.4 and 2.0, etc).

KDE 3.0 and 3.1 are sufficiently different (and screwy) that it might explain why you have ebuilds from both (or perhaps it's possible that they use different SLOTS because KDE 3.1 is still malware). I don't know...I haven't looked.

Unfortunately, it's nearly impossible to tell what you can get rid of, because the dependencies may not get registered properly. For instance, when I rebuilt (for the fourth time in two months) my system this weekend, I had (among other flags) USE=X and ~x86. The /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.2.99.ebuild file has cabextract as a dependecy of the truetype USE variable, but the freetype ebuild itself has no such dependency. Thus, without quite a bit of research, it wouldn't be possible for me to figure out why cabextract was installed on my system....and an ebuild depclean or ebuild unmerge might allow me to remove cabextract. Another example: the gentoo-sources-2.4.20 build called yacc, but yacc wasn't listed as a dependency anywhere and hadn't been installed.

Short answer for you: find out if you have (and need) more than one version of gnome/kde. Look at the ebuilds for the gnome-base and kde-base packages and determine if they use different SLOTS...try removing gnome and kde (one at a time) from your USE variables and type:

emerge -e -p system
emerge -e -p world

and see what is different between each list from the list(s) when you HAVE the kde and gnome USE variables. This will give you *an idea* (but not a precise list) of which packages required the various programs you think are duplicated ;-)

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