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> I've seen this kind of thing a few times before, most notably with avifile |
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> and drip. In this case, there is an update available for wxGTK, so portage |
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> upgrades it. Unfortunately, there is some program installed that requires |
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> on a version of wxGTK <=2.4.0, so portage downgrades it to not break the |
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> other program. I consider this behavior a portage bug, but as far as I |
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> know, there is currently no easy way to prevent this from happening. |
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To fix this problem we need a dependency checker that works with the whole |
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installed tree, and validates it. We currently don't have such a checker and |
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the current checker cannot be adapted to do that either. The problem is that |
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it is very hard to make a checker to do forward and backward dependency |
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checking and still being efficient. |
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We are working on this, and it is certainly high on our list of desired |
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features, but currently there is not much to fix this. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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