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Bug 26139 - portage output for SLOT upgrades is confusing
Summary: portage output for SLOT upgrades is confusing
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 4698
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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: 61736 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-08-07 10:48 UTC by Marius Mauch (RETIRED)
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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patch against portage-2.0.49_pre16 (emerge.patch,530 bytes, patch)
2003-08-07 10:49 UTC, Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 		Details | Diff
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Description Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-08-07 10:48:40 UTC 
When portage wants to install a package in a different SLOT than the installed
one it shows this as an upgrade. While this is right it is confusing people as
there is no indication that the other version will not be deleted.

Example:
gtk2 is installed and I want to install a app that need gtk1, portage prints:

[ebuild     U ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r9 [2.2.1]

better aproach would be to use another letter for SLOT upgrades, so it would
look like:

[ebuild     S ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r9 [2.2.1]
Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-08-07 10:49:35 UTC 
Created attachment 15691 [details, diff]
patch against portage-2.0.49_pre16
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-08-07 16:14:54 UTC 
imo thats just as bad ... you should show the latest version of the SLOT rather 
than the pkg ... 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4698 ***
Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-26 04:16:18 UTC 
*** Bug 61736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-05 06:46:24 UTC 
Fixed