<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Hika van den Hoven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com" target="_blank">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hoi James,<br>
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Thursday, March 9, 2017, 6:57:51 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Hika van den Hoven wrote:<br>
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>> I saw it too, but it is installing in a new slot so it leaves 5.6.30<br>
>> installed. Through eselect you select which one you use. You then can<br>
>> take your time to test while keeping everything running with 5.6. I<br>
>> haven't tried jet though.<br>
>> However pre 5.6.30 is deprecated so you might have to upgrade your 5.6<br>
>> instance to 5.6.30.<br>
>> Possibly if you run `emerge --depclean --ask` it wants to unmerge 5.6<br>
>> but in the text then it says how to block it. However as long as you<br>
>> do not set (through eselect) 7.0 as the main version it shouldn't.<br>
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> Thanks for your input, Hika. I do have 5.6.30, which eselect shows as the<br>
> currently-selected instance. Still, when I run emerge --depclean --ask the<br>
> system wants, now that version 7 has been merged, to unmerge 5.6.30--I<br>
> don't see any directives in the output for "blocking" anything (I assume<br>
> you mean blocking the removal). I've done a fair amount of searching the<br>
> web and examining of package.use and other directories, as well as<br>
> introducing a tweak or two. But running emerge --depclean still calls for<br>
> unmerging 5.6.30. I should probably turn to the gentoo forums in my<br>
> attempts to further troubleshoot this issue: it's only peripherally<br>
> related to MythTV, after all.<br>
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</span>Look at the top of the output for `emerge --depclean --ask`:<br>
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`emerge --noreplace <atom>` or `emerge --noreplace dev-lang\php-5.6.30`<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I think the version needs to be prefixed with an equals sign (and probably also use a forward slash, because I think the back slash will try to escape the following p), as such:<br></div><div>`emerge --noreplace =dev-lang/php-5.6.30`<br><br></div><div>Karl<br></div></div><br></div></div>