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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple package moves into one
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:50:31
Message-Id: 50041BE7.1000600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple package moves into one by Zac Medico
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4 On 15/07/12 06:16 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
5 > On 07/15/2012 03:08 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
6 >> Is it valid to do something like:
7 >>
8 >> move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins move
9 >> media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins move
10 >> media-plugins/mythgallery media-plugins/mythplugins move
11 >> media-plugins/mythgame media-plugins/mythplugins move
12 >> media-plugins/mythmovies media-plugins/mythplugins move
13 >> media-plugins/mythnews media-plugins/mythplugins move
14 >> media-plugins/mythweather media-plugins/mythplugins
15 >
16 > No, that's not really how it's intended to be used. You'll probably
17 > have to put blockers in media-plugins/mythplugins to block all the
18 > old packages that install the same files.
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20 Theoretically (i've done a quick test on this and it seems true) a
21 single-"!" blocker is enough that one package will on upgrade replace
22 all these others without user intervention being required (assuming
23 these packages aren't in @world, of course), and it won't cause file
24 collisions.
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26 Unrelatedly curious, why the package merge?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] multiple package moves into one Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>