From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23564 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Aug 2003 00:37:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 10190 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2003 00:37:23 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:37:22 -0400 From: Jon Portnoy To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030827003722.GA9653@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <3F4BE61E.50600@technaut.darktalker.net> <200308261902.03839.cedric@neopeak.com> <20030827000837.GA6635@enki.datanode.net> <20030827001535.GA8840@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20030827003202.GB6635@enki.datanode.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030827003202.GB6635@enki.datanode.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage X-Archives-Salt: 77d3a8ec-c025-4f3f-a6cd-539ddde304be X-Archives-Hash: f7fe9e261f9ab5d0744628093f437d28 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 avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list