From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:37:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030827003722.GA9653@cerberus.oppresses.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030827003202.GB6635@enki.datanode.net>
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:32:02PM -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
> I think the point is, why do they not block each other? Shouldn't they?
>
> Not that this is part of the original thread :)
>
>
Why should they? netkit-base is a package that happens to provide
ping among other utilities; because all of them except the old-style
inetd are deprecated (old-style inetd is deprecated but some people
still prefer it, for whatever reason). It no longer provides ping, just
old-style inetd.
Block each other in what way? How do you know before getting to the
merge stage that files might be conflicting?
The only real solution that I can see is preventing it from happening in
the first place.
Here's something in the same vein:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18181
I guess we need to determine which package provides the best version of
kill. In that case, it's not that much of a big deal because most people
are going to be using their shell's internal kill command anyway,
though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-27 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-26 22:58 [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-26 23:02 ` Cedric Veilleux
2003-08-26 23:14 ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-26 23:01 ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-26 23:19 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-08-27 0:08 ` Michael Cummings
2003-08-27 0:15 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-27 0:32 ` Michael Cummings
2003-08-27 0:37 ` Jon Portnoy [this message]
2003-08-27 8:27 ` Mikael Andersson
2003-08-27 8:37 ` Jason Stubbs
2003-08-27 6:24 ` Rajiv Aaron Manglani
2003-08-27 7:11 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-08-27 7:27 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-27 7:53 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-08-27 8:00 ` Jon Portnoy
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