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Miguel S. Filipe wrote: |
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> Jean-Michel Smith wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:57 am, Dan Naumov wrote: |
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>>> Hey. |
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>>> I would like to know whether some kind of reverse-dependency support is |
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>>> going to be included in Portage2. It would be nice if in case of |
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>>> unmerging a package, Portage would let the user know whether some |
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>>> installed packages need it and if so, what packages do. |
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>> I would second that feature request. It would also allow for some |
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>> intelligent 'auto-healing' of the system, by allowing one to |
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>> (optionally) recompile any packages dependent on an ebuild that has |
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>> just been upgraded so they run against the newest version or warning |
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>> one before a package upon which others rely is removed. This is the |
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>> one feature I miss most about Source Mage (sorcerer). |
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>> Jean. |
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> Yes, that must be something that the next version of portage address. |
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> I also second that feature request! |
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Please note this is very easy todo by hand. I wrote a script in an hour |
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or so once that did reverse dependancy look up. This was sometime ago, |
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though, and I don't think the python-portage api is the same anymore. |
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Is this true? If I get a chance I'll look into it and post the script |
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to the list. |
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-- David Snopek |
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