Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@×××××××××××××××××.de> schrieb:

Hi,

> e) A package needs a newer version of another package, but doesn't depend
> on it.
>
> This was the case with KDE4. kdelibs-4.0.x block these packages:
>     !<kde-base/kdebase-3.5.7-r6
>     !<kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.7-r1
>     !=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8
>     !=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r1
>     !=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r2
>     !=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.8

I don't know very much about KDE stuff, since I got rid of it for 
a long time, but IMHO it seems there's an principle problem on 
the install layout - 3.x and 4.x should be completely separate,
never conflicting each other. So some package kfoo either depends
on kdelibfoo-3.x OR kdelibfoo-4.x.

Of course I don't know whether the problems comes from ebuilds 
or upstream ;-o

cu
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