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From: JR Boyens <jboyens@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse-dependency support in Portage2 ?
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 00:07:18
Message-Id: 1022821735.22111.0.camel@fooninja.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse-dependency support in Portage2 ? by "Miguel S. Filipe"
1 Well frankly, wouldn't a second to a second be a third? Therefore I
2 hearby 'fourth' that measure. :)
3
4 On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 18:02, Miguel S. Filipe wrote:
5 > Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
6 >
7 > >On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:57 am, Dan Naumov wrote:
8 > >
9 > >
10 > >>Hey.
11 > >>
12 > >>I would like to know whether some kind of reverse-dependency support is
13 > >>going to be included in Portage2. It would be nice if in case of
14 > >>unmerging a package, Portage would let the user know whether some
15 > >>installed packages need it and if so, what packages do.
16 > >>
17 > >>
18 > >
19 > >I would second that feature request. It would also allow for some intelligent
20 > >'auto-healing' of the system, by allowing one to (optionally) recompile any
21 > >packages dependent on an ebuild that has just been upgraded so they run
22 > >against the newest version or warning one before a package upon which others
23 > >rely is removed. This is the one feature I miss most about Source Mage
24 > >(sorcerer).
25 > >
26 > >Jean.
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31 > >
32 > >
33 > >
34 > Yes, that must be something that the next version of portage address.
35 > I also second that feature request!
36 >
37 >
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