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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
Subject: Re: Blockers and package moves
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:47:11 -0600
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:49:38 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...> wrote:

> People seem to have started using blockers with package moves recently.
> For example, if cat/a is being moved to cat/b, people have started
> putting !cat/a as a dependency in cat/b. This is bad, for two reasons.

It's bad for a couple more too.  No one should be doing this.

> Option the first is that people stop writing stupid blockers on package
> moves. Unless someone can come up with a convincing reason to keep them
> there, this is the option that should be taken, and repoman should
> enforce it.

Can repoman get at that info?  It could be mentioned in
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_chap6


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