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From: "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007)
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:41:39
Message-Id: 3c32af40711071037n19716a45xdad7f3b2b361c524@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007) by Steve Long
1 On Nov 7, 2007 3:09 PM, Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > Jim Ramsay wrote:
3 >
4 > > This could be automated by the PM in those cases with some sort of
5 > > thing like this in the cat/bar-1.0.ebuild:
6 > >
7 > > OBSOLETES="cat/foo"
8 > >
9 > > Of course this would be a regular package atom (or list thereof), so it
10 > > could be tied to specific versions of cat/foo.
11 > >
12 > I really like that idea. (A RECOMMENDS thing similar to debian would be nice
13 > too.)
14 >
15
16 Agreed. Recomendation could be queried in a standarised way and at any
17 time (not only after installing a package). It'd be more reliable than
18 current pkg_postinst messages.
19
20 Regards,
21 Santiago
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