Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update

[Trenton Adams]

On 1/5/06, Tom Martin <slarti@g.o> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:29:57 -0700
> Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync today.
> >  My guess is that the openmotif package was made into two separate
> > packages, correct?
> >
> > To the portage developers, how could this be handled?  Perhaps emerge
> > could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then
> > automatically unmerge the original package?
>
> Not really a question to the portage developers -- just unmerge
> openmotif (the blocker) and continue as normal.

So what happens to the unknowing user that doesn't figure out that the
package was split into multiple packages?  Especially if it's a
critical system package.  They may not like the idea of unmerging the
package, and re-merging.

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