Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Conflicting RDEPENDS

[Alec Warner]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:33 AM, René 'Necoro' Neumann <lists@××××××.eu> wrote:
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> Patrick Börjesson schrieb:
>>>
>>> # emerge -1av bacon
>>>
>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies                ... done!
>>> [ebuild     UD] app-test/eggs-1 [2] 0 kB [1]
>>> [ebuild  N    ] app-test/bacon-1  0 kB [1]
>>>
>>>
>>> This second behavior looks wrong to me, as it downgrades the RDEPEND of
>>> spam and thus spam becomes unusable.
>>
>> Try: emerge -1av --complete-graph bacon
>
> Ok - this works ... IF spam is in world. If I installed spam with
> - --oneshot, it won't work either.

So don't use --oneshot :)

>
>> Unless --complete-graph is specified emerge won't pull in the entire
>> dependency graph, thus won't notice the dependency-spec of
>> app-test/spam.
>> Using -D combined with the world set when updating your system yields
>> the same result as that also pulls in the entire dependency graph.
>>
>> Unless the entire dependency graph is pulled in emerge only tries to
>> satisfy the dependencies of the packages given on the commandline, and
>> since there's no "connection" between app-test/spam and app-test/bacon,
>> and emerge doesn't do reverse deps when adding something to the
>> dep-graph, it doesn't notice that app-test/bacon and app-test/spam has
>> conflicting dependencies
>>
>> Using --complete-graph is noticably slower since it slows down
>> dependency calculations, but it should (IMHO) really be the default
>> since these conflicts shows _before_ anything breaks.
>
> I agree.
>
> Regards,
> René
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