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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:10:38 +0000, Tom Martin wrote: |
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> > To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge |
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> > could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then |
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> > automatically unmerge the original package? |
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> Not really a question to the portage developers -- just unmerge |
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> openmotif (the blocker) and continue as normal. |
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If would be nice is portage had a means for developers to handle these |
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types of conflicts in the ebuild. A similar thing happened recently with |
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xpdf/poppler, it happened with some FTP servers and the ftp-base package |
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not long ago. I realise it is not possible to handle all conflicts, but |
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with some instances, like this one, the conflict is expected. even if |
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there were just a means to print a message if a package hits a block, |
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something like |
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if_blocked_by('openmotif') |
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ewarn "You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding" |
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Neil Bothwick |
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