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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Commiting of ~arch virtual/* ebuilds causes deptree issues
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:30:07
Message-Id: 43A99ED4.6000002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Commiting of ~arch virtual/* ebuilds causes deptree issues by Jakub Moc
1 Jakub Moc wrote:
2 > the virtual/ thingy broke the deptree again with virtual/libstdc++ (see Bug
3 > 116253), essentially the same issue like with virtual/x11. These virtuals
4 > need to go straight stable if any of their RDEPEND atoms is stable for a
5 > particular arch.
6
7 Shouldn't it be the reverse? Rather, they need to go stable if anything
8 depending on them is stable.
9
10 IOW, it doesn't matter if an ~arch virtual depends on stable packages.
11 It matters if stable packages depend on an ~arch virtual.
12
13 Thanks,
14 Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Commiting of ~arch virtual/* ebuilds causes deptree issues "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>