Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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> I've seen this kind of thing a few times before, most notably with avifile
> and drip. In this case, there is an update available for wxGTK, so portage
> upgrades it. Unfortunately, there is some program installed that requires
> on a version of wxGTK <=2.4.0, so portage downgrades it to not break the
> other program. I consider this behavior a portage bug, but as far as I
> know, there is currently no easy way to prevent this from happening.

To fix this problem we need a dependency checker that works with the whole 
installed tree, and validates it. We currently don't have such a checker and 
the current checker cannot be adapted to do that either. The problem is that 
it is very hard to make a checker to do forward and backward dependency 
checking and still being efficient.

We are working on this, and it is certainly high on our list of desired 
features, but currently there is not much to fix this.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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