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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:49:46
Message-Id: 18503.53638.884328.573602@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path? by Matthias Schwarzott
1 >>>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
2
3 >> With #1 the user will get a message about the blockers immediately.
4 >> With #2 his emerge (maybe of many packages) will needlessly die
5 >> when it reaches your package.
6
7 > With #1 user will get no message, as neither the user nor the
8 > package manager know of the merged package that should be emerged.
9
10 So nothing depends on it that would pull in the new package? Now I see
11 what your problem is. ;-)
12
13 Isn't it possible to package.move -server or -client to the new
14 package?
15
16 Ulrich
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Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path? Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>