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| From: | Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage | ||
| Date: | Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:23:31 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4FEEE17F.9020003@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage by Pacho Ramos |
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| 1 | On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
| 2 | > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: |
| 3 | > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when |
| 6 | > downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers |
| 7 | > shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages as they will later |
| 8 | > cause a total breakage. People is not supposed to know that downgrading |
| 9 | > some package system will, for example, have an unusable gcc. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | It seems like a die in pkg_pretend would serve pretty well. |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Thanks, |
| 14 | Zac |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage | Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage | "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> |