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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How does emerge resolve dependencies?
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:47:18
Message-Id: 20040213164714.7083b0c2.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] How does emerge resolve dependencies? by Svyatogor
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2 On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:40:08 +0200
3 Svyatogor <svyatogor@g.o> wrote:
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5 > That sounds strange to me :/ What about the output for emerge
6 > --pretend? It wouldn't show you the smae package in the list twice,
7 > will it? The only workaround I can suggest is to mask all package
8 > versions which are higher than those needed by latest wrapper
9 > script...
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13 emerge -p system will always try to go for the -latest- version around
14 though, As will all of portage when you do "emerge foo" (it will try to
15 get the latest version, not just any version) So that might be
16 something to keep in mind.
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20 However, this bug might also be something to consider:
21 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39707
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23 //Spider
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28 Tortured users / Laughing in pain
29 See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] How does emerge resolve dependencies? Paul Smith <pausmith@××××××××××××××.com>