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Jon Portnoy said: |
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> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Maik Schreiber wrote: |
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>> So again, there's no point in masking a package "unstable" just because |
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>> its dependencies are "unstable". |
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>> Maik Schreiber, Gentoo Linux Developer |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org |
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>> mailto:blizzy@g.o |
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> Er? If the dependencies are marked unstable and the package isn't, nobody |
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> (or nobody only using stable keywords, I should say) can install it unless |
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> the dependencies are marked stable... |
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True. But as soon as the dependencies get marked stable, they /will/ be able |
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to install it. |
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Also, in this case, the unstable dependency was purely an optional dependency. |
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> Jon Portnoy |
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