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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>
To: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, raker@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:00:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030827080000.GA31310@cerberus.oppresses.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030827095344.628c4fed.degrenier@easyconnect.fr>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:27:35 -0400
> Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> wrote:
>  
> > Er, they already block each other and dependencies should be on 
> > virtual/motif...
> 
> I know for the virtual, but I confirm they don't block each other:
> 
>   thomas@gromit thomas $ emerge -pv openmotif lesstif
>   These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>   Calculating dependencies ...done!
>   [ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.2-r2
>   [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/lesstif-0.93.40
> 

Ah, crap. You're right.

I'm pretty sure they used to block. What happened?

(poke @ raker)

> A nice way to not forget this kind of block would be if portage was able
> to distinguish between virtuals that may accept several providers and
> those that can accept only exactly one. 
> 

We handle this in the ebuilds in DEPEND (by using !).

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-27  8:00 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
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 [this message]

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