Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage quibbles

[Bernhard Bock]

Hi!

On Thursday 20 March 2003 17:21, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:11:27PM +0000, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> > (3) Sometimes pinning an item in world file like '>=net-www/mozilla-1.3'
> > does not stop an 'emerge -up -deep world' from downgrading it because
> > another package like evolution wants an older version.
>
> Not a bug. Do you _really_ want the world file to be able to break
> dependencies?

Yes. I mean, most time I do no pinning because Portage does the right thing 
(tm). 

But if I explicitly pin a package to one version (or >= version), this is done 
_by intention_ and I do want Portage to respect this. A warning or a needed 
flag (something like "emerge -u --reallybreakmydependenciesiknowwhatimdoing 
world", error without this flag) is ok, but a downgrade is IMHO unaccepable 
in this case.

Bernhard



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