Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] dep resolution weirdness
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:50:29
Message-Id: 20070217145208.32e07442@sheridan.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] dep resolution weirdness by George Shapovalov
1 On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:42:49 +0100
2 George Shapovalov <george@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Ok, found it.
5 > Thanks Marius! (for the debug hint)
6 >
7 > It was indeed forcing gnat-gcc-4.1.1 by asis-gcc-4.1.1 which has
8 > =dev-lang/gnat-4.1.1 (this is an "extension" to compiler and has to
9 > match it 1 for 1, forgot to bump that one :().
10 > However, shouldn't --tree have reported the relevant package as
11 > requiring this downgrade instead of some other, pretty much arbitrary
12 > (from dependants of gnat-gcc)?
13
14 In an ideal world: yes, but portage is far from being ideal (I won't
15 pretend to know the internals of the dep resolver, so can't give a good
16 explanation for this behavior).
17
18 Marius
19
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