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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:24:18
Message-Id: 3F9ADBC0.8040603@technaut.darktalker.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop by Paul de Vrieze
1 Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 >>I've seen this kind of thing a few times before, most notably with avifile
3 >>and drip. In this case, there is an update available for wxGTK, so portage
4 >>upgrades it. Unfortunately, there is some program installed that requires
5 >>on a version of wxGTK <=2.4.0, so portage downgrades it to not break the
6 >>other program. I consider this behavior a portage bug, but as far as I
7 >>know, there is currently no easy way to prevent this from happening.
8 >
9 >
10 > To fix this problem we need a dependency checker that works with the whole
11 > installed tree, and validates it. We currently don't have such a checker and
12 > the current checker cannot be adapted to do that either. The problem is that
13 > it is very hard to make a checker to do forward and backward dependency
14 > checking and still being efficient.
15 >
16 > We are working on this, and it is certainly high on our list of desired
17 > features, but currently there is not much to fix this.
18
19 I'm not very good with Python, but I'm interested in helping to design a better dependency
20 checker. Could you give me a summary of the way the checker currently works or point me to
21 a document that describes it? Or should I just learn Python?
22
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24 Andrew Gaffney
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>