Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:54:38
Message-Id: 20090101015408.GC7488@anton.digitaltorque.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late by Graham Murray
1 On 01/01/09 Graham Murray said:
2
3 > I think that the default action should be that such 'breakages' should
4 > be checked during the dependency building phase, a message displayed and
5 > the emerge stop[0]. Then you could either mask the offending package or
6 > issue a special flag[1] to emerge to acknowledge the 'problem' but
7 > install/upgrade the package anyway.
8 >
9 > [0] As with package blockers.
10 >
11 > [1] A new flag, something like '--unsafe'
12
13 I completely agree.
14
15 Mike
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17 Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca>
18 "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
19 touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
20 --Albert Einstein