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From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] NEWS item for games destabling
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:38:13
Message-Id: CAJjrzcWfmQwgY_-9APKkdrmktPmVj7PoHgmASWVoL8gSWLB5_g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] NEWS item for games destabling by Rich Freeman
1 On 27 November 2017 at 20:34, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > To answer his question, there is not any way out-of-the-box to tell
4 > portage to install the latest ~arch version of a package that has only
5 > stable or already-accepted dependencies. Certainly it should be
6 > possible to build such a feature, but it doesn't exist today.
7 >
8
9 Sounds kind of weird? If he has keyworded the game package, shouldn't it
10 just never install that version if it depends on an unstable package? I
11 know I've seen errors of that kind on a machine running stable, but
12 shouldn't emerge just skip the package update if you can't satisfy its
13 dependencies? In my head it sounds like that should be something of a
14 default, but maybe I'm missing something.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] NEWS item for games destabling Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>