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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-pms] Clarify wording on self-blockers
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:28:51
Message-Id: 19895.199.249977.167001@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 It's not quite clear what a "block on an ebuild" is, so let's clarify
2 the wording such that it agrees with portage behaviour.
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4 Portage ignores self-blockers both in DEPEND and RDEPEND.
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6 Ulrich
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9 From 4161e17efacbcb58b6a1de9484cfe683c1e74e65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
10 From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
11 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:10:51 +0200
12 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify wording on self-blockers.
13
14 ---
15 dependencies.tex | 2 +-
16 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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18 diff --git a/dependencies.tex b/dependencies.tex
19 index 362f6cc..6ea179c 100644
20 --- a/dependencies.tex
21 +++ b/dependencies.tex
22 @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ following exceptions:
23
24 \begin{compactitem}
25 \item Blocks on a package provided exclusively by the ebuild do not count. \label{provided-blocks}
26 -\item Blocks on the ebuild itself do not count.
27 +\item Blocks on the package version of the ebuild itself do not count.
28 \end{compactitem}
29
30 \featurelabel{bang-strength} There are two strengths of block: weak and strong. A weak block may be
31 --
32 1.7.5.rc1

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Re: [gentoo-pms] Clarify wording on self-blockers Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>