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"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca> writes: |
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> Sure enough, X no longer works. I'm following the instructions now, but... |
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> Don't you think the default action here should be to do nothing instead of |
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> breaking my system? |
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I think that the default action should be that such 'breakages' should |
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be checked during the dependency building phase, a message displayed and |
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the emerge stop[0]. Then you could either mask the offending package or |
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issue a special flag[1] to emerge to acknowledge the 'problem' but |
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install/upgrade the package anyway. |
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[0] As with package blockers. |
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[1] A new flag, something like '--unsafe' |