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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge -pv and masked dependencies
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:05:18
Message-Id: 20051104130435.0569a5b0@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge -pv and masked dependencies by Brian
1 On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:14:20 -0800 Brian <dol-sen@×××××.net> wrote:
2 | emerge -pv <package>
3 |
4 | would actually continue listing (modified normal)after finding a
5 | dependency is masked rather than stop on, and report only, the first
6 | one. The masked packages would need to be marked as such [hard
7 | masked, keyword masked], possibly shown grouped in blocks [KEYWORD,
8 | HARD MASKED, STABLE].
9
10 Problem is, once you hit one bad dependency, you can't carry on and
11 guarantee what the rest of the dep tree is going to be. Example:
12
13 emerge -pv foo
14
15 foo DEPENDs upon bar and baz
16 bar DEPENDS upon fnord, and is MASKED
17 baz DEPENDs upon || ( gerbil fnord )
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
21 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
22 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] emerge -pv and masked dependencies Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>