Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Blockers and package moves
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:30:55
Message-Id: 4D346EA5.6060004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Blockers and package moves by Donnie Berkholz
1 On 01/17/2011 08:10 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On 13:49 Sun 16 Jan , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 >> Does anyone care to justify their "block the old name" habits?
4 >
5 > How about playing nicely with overlays where the moves didn't happen
6 > (yet)?
7
8 That seems like a somewhat justifiable use case. If such a blocker is
9 placed in RDEPEND and specifies the SLOT (if the package happens to be
10 slotted), then it shouldn't cause a problem. Even if the package move
11 gets applied to the blocker, it will be obvious that a slotted circular
12 blocker in RDEPEND should simply be ignored.
13 --
14 Thanks,
15 Zac