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From: foser <foser@×××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why does emerge give up too easily?
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:55:50
Message-Id: 3DEB5822.8000601@foser.warande.net
1 Alexander Gretencord wrote:
2 > You are right, _may_, so portage should check _if_ the failed ebuild is a dep
3 > for a package down in the chain and if not continue with it.
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5 Maybe, from a portage pov i don't think that's easy to implement. Maybe
6 in an ideal situation, but then you should also know what packages
7 failed and why and which packages are affected.
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9 > This has nothing
10 > to do with unstable, as gentoo is bleeding edge this can even and has
11 > happened to "stable" packages...
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13 Bleeding edge is no excuse for failing packages, fyi mozilla-1.2 is
14 masked and so is galeon-1.2.7 .
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16 - foser
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