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On 1/6/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:14:36 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > | if_blocked_by('openmotif') |
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> > | ewarn "You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding" |
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> > It would be icky to have to specify blocker logic/messages like that. |
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> Not in the sort of cases that come up most often, where functionality has |
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> been moved from a package into another. In this case the block is |
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> entirely predictable. If, for example, you are updating xpdf from version |
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> <=X to version >X, it will both require and block poppler. The dev has |
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> already modified the ebuild to handle the new dependency, so he will know |
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> about the block. |
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EXACTLY Neil! :) |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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