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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output: [ebuild UD ]
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:55:57
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMU6jfH4FyB0bHVeawcNVP=UAXwhEe5+okxh2cSgsHYEgQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output: [ebuild UD ] by Samuli Suominen
1 On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 17/09/14 16:16, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
4 >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
5 >>> On 17/09/14 03:01, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
6 >>>> On 09/16/2014 03:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
7 >>>>> For some reason xfce-power-manager-1.3.1 does not satisfy what the local
8 >>>>> install needs but 1.3.0 does. So portage wants to make it so.
9 >>>>>
10 >>>> Version 1.3.1 was removed from the tree, leaving only 1.3.0 to satisfy
11 >>>> XFCE_PLUGINS=battery/brightness.
12 >>>>
13 >>>>
14 >>>>
15 >>> That's not it. Portage doesn't work like that.
16 >>>
17 >>> It's because he specifically keyworded 1.3.1 in package.keywords,
18 >>> instead using something smart like:
19 >>>
20 >>> <xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-9999
21 >>>
22 >>> To get latest non-live version.
23 >>>
24 >> I'm not necessarily after the most recent non-live version of the package.
25 >> I just didn't want lvm2 pulled in as my current setup has no use for it.
26 >>
27 >> What would you recommend doing, leave things as they are, or keyword
28 >> the stanza you suggested?
29 >>
30 >> Thanks.
31 >>
32 >
33 > Notice that I said "_non_-live" and the "<" char in the line. I would
34 > use the stanza (as you said)
35 > because if 1.4.0 is not stabilized before something like 1.4.1 is added
36 > to tree, and 1.4.0 gets
37 > deleted, you are facing the same problem all over again.
38 > As in, <xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-9999 with the < means "I want
39 > latest non-live version."
40 >
41
42 Understood. Thanks.