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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 09:51:00
Message-Id: 1013010370.29077.1.camel@fooninja.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Dependency/conflict resolution with emerge by Marc Soda
1 As far as I know the newest versions of Galeon in Portage are:
2 1.0.3-Stable and 1.1.3-Devel. That still doesn't answer the question as
3 to why our ebuild of Moz-0.9.8 does not build libtimer_gtk.so... :)
4
5 On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 09:08, Marc Soda wrote:
6 > Gentoo dev team,
7 >
8 > First let me say that Gentoo rules. It has become my new distro of
9 > choice. Thank you.
10 >
11 > Ok, my issue is with dependency/conflict resolution with emerge. This
12 > morning I updated my Gentoo box, with the new stuff in portage. One
13 > of those packages was Mozilla 0.9.8. I use Galeon as my web browser
14 > which, as you know, depends on Mozilla. The Galeon in Portage is
15 > version 1.0.2, which depends on Mozilla 0.9.7. After this update
16 > Galeon will not run. Not a big deal for me and I am not asking for a
17 > solution, but it seems to me that emerge should have detected that
18 > dependency and given a warning, similar to the way rpm does. Is this
19 > functionality plan for Gentoo 1.0?
20 >
21 > Also, I would like to contribute to Gentoo's development. I have many
22 > skills which I believe would be beneficial to the project. Please let
23 > me know if your interested in more developers/maintainers, and if so,
24 > how I can help.
25 >
26 > Thanks again,
27 >
28 > --
29 >
30 > Marc Soda
31 > ASPRE, Inc.
32 > marc@×××××.net
33 > http://www.aspre.net/
34 > _______________________________________________
35 > gentoo-dev mailing list
36 > gentoo-dev@g.o
37 > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
38 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependency/conflict resolution with emerge Marc Soda <marc@×××××.net>