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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o, raker@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:00:02
Message-Id: 20030827080000.GA31310@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage by Thomas de Grenier de Latour
1 On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
2 > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:27:35 -0400
3 > Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Er, they already block each other and dependencies should be on
6 > > virtual/motif...
7 >
8 > I know for the virtual, but I confirm they don't block each other:
9 >
10 > thomas@gromit thomas $ emerge -pv openmotif lesstif
11 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
12 > Calculating dependencies ...done!
13 > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.2-r2
14 > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/lesstif-0.93.40
15 >
16
17 Ah, crap. You're right.
18
19 I'm pretty sure they used to block. What happened?
20
21 (poke @ raker)
22
23 > A nice way to not forget this kind of block would be if portage was able
24 > to distinguish between virtuals that may accept several providers and
25 > those that can accept only exactly one.
26 >
27
28 We handle this in the ebuilds in DEPEND (by using !).
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