From: John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle conflicts?]
Date: 16 Jun 2003 12:13:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055761989.28763.23.camel@johnm.willow.local> (raw)
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forwarding my reply onto the list as well.
> >
> > What is the best way to handle conflicts of packages? Ie: I have a
> > stable (release) version of software A, and I also have a bleeding edge
> > version of the same software (that tracks the same current stable
> > version). What I want to do is that if they install the CVS version (or
> > the release version) they can't install the other version without
> > un-installing the other one. I'd like to do this to make sure that they
> > are linked against the correct version of the libraries.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Michael Boman
>
> You can put blocking packages into the DEPEND.
> please check gaim and gaim-cvs for examples :)
>
>
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