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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.

-- 
Jon Portnoy
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  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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