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From: JR Boyens <jboyens@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependency/conflict resolution with emerge
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:24:53
Message-Id: 1013012402.29161.14.camel@fooninja.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependency/conflict resolution with emerge by Marc Soda
1 Should be doing an emerge --world update :)
2
3 'system' as far as I know, only update those things that are essential
4 to your system, while update updates everything.
5
6 --
7 JR Boyens
8 jboyens@×××××××.edu
9
10 On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:09, Marc Soda wrote:
11 > Your right they are there, why then, when I do an 'emerge --world
12 > system'
13 > does galeon not get updated.
14 >
15 > On 2002.02.06 10:46 JR Boyens wrote:
16 > > As far as I know the newest versions of Galeon in Portage are:
17 > > 1.0.3-Stable and 1.1.3-Devel. That still doesn't answer the question
18 > > as
19 > > to why our ebuild of Moz-0.9.8 does not build libtimer_gtk.so... :)
20 > >
21 > > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 09:08, Marc Soda wrote:
22 > > > Gentoo dev team,
23 > > >
24 > > > First let me say that Gentoo rules. It has become my new distro of
25 > > > choice. Thank you.
26 > > >
27 > > > Ok, my issue is with dependency/conflict resolution with emerge.
28 > > This
29 > > > morning I updated my Gentoo box, with the new stuff in portage. One
30 > > > of those packages was Mozilla 0.9.8. I use Galeon as my web browser
31 > > > which, as you know, depends on Mozilla. The Galeon in Portage is
32 > > > version 1.0.2, which depends on Mozilla 0.9.7. After this update
33 > > > Galeon will not run. Not a big deal for me and I am not asking for
34 > > a
35 > > > solution, but it seems to me that emerge should have detected that
36 > > > dependency and given a warning, similar to the way rpm does. Is
37 > > this
38 > > > functionality plan for Gentoo 1.0?
39 > > >
40 > > > Also, I would like to contribute to Gentoo's development. I have
41 > > many
42 > > > skills which I believe would be beneficial to the project. Please
43 > > let
44 > > > me know if your interested in more developers/maintainers, and if
45 > > so,
46 > > > how I can help.
47 > > >
48 > > > Thanks again,
49 > > >
50 > > > --
51 > > >
52 > > > Marc Soda
53 > > > ASPRE, Inc.
54 > > > marc@×××××.net
55 > > > http://www.aspre.net/
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69 >
70 > Marc Soda
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