Re: [gentoo-dev] qpkg

[Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly_kushneriuk@yahoo.com>]

> Perhaps, though, qpkg should not flag major revisions as duplicates.  For
> instance, qpkg flags the following packages as duplicates:
> 
> x11-libs/qt-2.3.1
> x11-libs/qt-3.0.1
> media-libs/freetype-2.0.5-r1
> media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r3
> sys-devel/automake-1.4_p5
> sys-devel/automake-1.4-r2
> 
> The first two sets are not duplicates because they are incompatible major
> versions. The dbm libraries also have this issue (there are three major
> versions in common use, though I'm not sure what's included with gentoo.)
> I have no idea what to do about the last set - it's not possible to tell
> by the name which is more recent (I'm not sure how I got into this
> situation either!)
I think it's not "The Right Thing (tm)" to make qpkg
handle freetype/db/qt libraries as a special cases.
Having multiple UNcompatible versions of the same PACKAGE
(note: not library) will interfere with a lot of other stuff.
Consider something like "--autounmerge" options(I'd like to see
something like this in portage btw.) that would unmerge old version
if newer version successfully installed.
The proper way IMHO would be to split freetype into freetype and
freetype2, removing all conflicts. The same aplies to db/db2/db3 etc.
This is the standard way of dealing with such stuff I think.
I can add some exceptions list to qpkg, though, if freetype maintainer
(Daniel?) does not want to split it.