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From: Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent conflict between readline 5 and 6
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:47:19
Message-Id: 20090712024641.3efb507a@dartworks.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Persistent conflict between readline 5 and 6 by felix@crowfix.com
1 === On Sat, 07/11, felix@×××××××.com wrote: ===
2 > This has been going on now for months. Is there some reason these two
3 > can't co-exist? Or is there some better fix than just ignoring it or
4 > adding an entry to package.mask?
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7 It's probably a bug that the readline package is not slotted. It is
8 possible to have multiple versions of it installed on a system.
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10 Alternatively the ghc package could use some maintenance. It's the only
11 one I know of that has that dependency locked to 5.
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13 for a quick fix you can lock readline to 5 in /etc/portage/package.mask
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