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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:06:21
Message-Id: 20090101110616.5bf767a3@krikkit
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late by Philip Webb
1 On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 05:54:33 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
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3 > Portage knows that what is proposed is going to break the user's system,
4 > so it should refuse to do it. It's like "Package A blocks package B",
5 > which causes the emerge to stop till the user acts more sensibly.
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7 This is different in that the problem is not detected until the emerge
8 starts, but portage could skip this package and carry on with the rest,
9 issuing an elog message explaining what happened and how to force an
10 install if that's what you really want.
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14 Neil Bothwick
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16 I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!!

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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca>