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From: Marc Soda <marc@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependency/conflict resolution with emerge
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:08:44
Message-Id: 20020206110914.G1875@archangel.aspre.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependency/conflict resolution with emerge by JR Boyens
1 Your right they are there, why then, when I do an 'emerge --world
2 system'
3 does galeon not get updated.
4
5 On 2002.02.06 10:46 JR Boyens wrote:
6 > As far as I know the newest versions of Galeon in Portage are:
7 > 1.0.3-Stable and 1.1.3-Devel. That still doesn't answer the question
8 > as
9 > to why our ebuild of Moz-0.9.8 does not build libtimer_gtk.so... :)
10 >
11 > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 09:08, Marc Soda wrote:
12 > > Gentoo dev team,
13 > >
14 > > First let me say that Gentoo rules. It has become my new distro of
15 > > choice. Thank you.
16 > >
17 > > Ok, my issue is with dependency/conflict resolution with emerge.
18 > This
19 > > morning I updated my Gentoo box, with the new stuff in portage. One
20 > > of those packages was Mozilla 0.9.8. I use Galeon as my web browser
21 > > which, as you know, depends on Mozilla. The Galeon in Portage is
22 > > version 1.0.2, which depends on Mozilla 0.9.7. After this update
23 > > Galeon will not run. Not a big deal for me and I am not asking for
24 > a
25 > > solution, but it seems to me that emerge should have detected that
26 > > dependency and given a warning, similar to the way rpm does. Is
27 > this
28 > > functionality plan for Gentoo 1.0?
29 > >
30 > > Also, I would like to contribute to Gentoo's development. I have
31 > many
32 > > skills which I believe would be beneficial to the project. Please
33 > let
34 > > me know if your interested in more developers/maintainers, and if
35 > so,
36 > > how I can help.
37 > >
38 > > Thanks again,
39 > >
40 > > --
41 > >
42 > > Marc Soda
43 > > ASPRE, Inc.
44 > > marc@×××××.net
45 > > http://www.aspre.net/
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50 > >
51 >
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59
60 Marc Soda
61 ASPRE, Inc.
62 marc@×××××.net
63 http://www.aspre.net/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependency/conflict resolution with emerge JR Boyens <jboyens@××××××××.org>