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From: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] dependencies.tex: Don't mention blocks on provided virtuals.
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 13:24:18
Message-Id: w6gzhf2f34a.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de
1 This is a remnant of old-style virtuals and should have been removed
2 long ago.
3
4 Fixes: c8ab6b99bffa85bcd686284ba60a30f53c31c8b0
5 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
6 ---
7 dependencies.tex | 9 ++-------
8 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
9
10 diff --git a/dependencies.tex b/dependencies.tex
11 index 44382d1..3305b86 100644
12 --- a/dependencies.tex
13 +++ b/dependencies.tex
14 @@ -279,13 +279,8 @@ The following operators are available:
15 \subsection{Block operator}
16
17 If the specification is prefixed with one or two exclamation marks, the named dependency is a block
18 -rather than a requirement---that is to say, the specified package must not be installed, with the
19 -following exceptions:
20 -
21 -\begin{compactitem}
22 -\item Blocks on a package provided exclusively by the ebuild do not count.
23 -\item Weak blocks on the package version of the ebuild itself do not count.
24 -\end{compactitem}
25 +rather than a requirement---that is to say, the specified package must not be installed. As an
26 +exception, weak blocks on the package version of the ebuild itself do not count.
27
28 \featurelabel{bang-strength} There are two strengths of block: weak and strong. A weak block may be
29 ignored by the package manager, so long as any blocked package will be uninstalled later on. A
30 --
31 2.24.1

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