Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge -pv and masked dependencies

[Marius Mauch]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:14:20 -0800 Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net> wrote:
> | emerge -pv <package>
> |
> | would actually continue listing (modified normal)after finding a
> | dependency is masked rather than stop on, and report only, the first
> | one.  The masked packages would need to be marked as such [hard
> | masked, keyword masked], possibly shown grouped in blocks [KEYWORD,
> | HARD MASKED, STABLE].
>
> Problem is, once you hit one bad dependency, you can't carry on and
> guarantee what the rest of the dep tree is going to be. Example:
>
> emerge -pv foo
>
> foo DEPENDs upon bar and baz
> bar DEPENDS upon fnord, and is MASKED
> baz DEPENDs upon || ( gerbil fnord )
>
Well, that and other semantic issues (what to do with multiple 
candidates for example?).

Marius
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