Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: Bumping portage to top of dependancy list (bug 48531)

[Jason Stubbs]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 16:49, Zac Medico wrote:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48531
>
> This simple patch automatically bumps portage to the top of the merge list.
>  I've always wanted this feature and it is a dependency of bug 108262.
> Feedback please. :)

No good. ;)

What if portage's dependencies aren't satisfied? Something like the below 
(possibly combined with the pprovided stuff) would be better...

--- emerge      (revision 2138)
+++ emerge      (working copy)
@@ -875,8 +875,15 @@
                                        mynewlines.remove(atom)
                                        break

-       return mynewlines
+       mynewlist = []
+       for atom in mynewlines:
+               if portage.dep_getkey(atom) == "sys-apps/portage":
+                       mynewlist.insert(0, atom)
+               else:
+                       mynewlist.append(atom)

+       return mynewlist
+
 def genericdict(mylist):
        mynewdict={}
        for x in mylist:
-- 
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