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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:58:05
Message-Id: 45003206.3060106@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers by Simon Stelling
1 Simon Stelling wrote:
2 > Carsten Lohrke wrote:
3 >> One question remains: Is it needed/correct that Portage doesn't take blockers
4 >> for architecture breakages into account? Such a line/prefix is easily changed
5 >> and when someone - whatever the bad reason is - uses cvs commit, a real tree
6 >> breakage is the cause.
7 >
8 > The behaviour is correct. The depstring in question was
9 > "!<app-text/hunspell-1.0", which means that you can't have <hunspell-1.0
10 > and kdelibs installed on a system at the same time. Reason for this
11 > could e.g. be file collisions that got fixed in hunspell-1.0.
12 >
13 > If the depstring was "!<app-text/hunspell-1.0 app-text/hunspell", (same
14 > as ">=app-text/hunspell-1.0", just retarded) repoman would complain loudly.
15
16 Well, now the ebuild is broken even worse, since the blocker is gone [1]
17 and hspell is still not disabled, so it will go kaboom when someone
18 installs the stable version.
19
20 [1]
21 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.4-r1.ebuild?r1=1.4&r2=1.5
22
23 carlo, you might want to revert it properly, instead of reverting only
24 half of the previous commit you've been complaining about here.
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28
29 Jakub Moc
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