From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28526 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Oct 2003 20:01:21 -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 29592 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2003 20:01:21 -0000 X-Cert-subject: /C=US/ST=Oklahoma/L=Oklahoma/O=SNU/CN=mail.gentoo.org/Email=postmaster@gentoo.org From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:00:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1067103837.16419.1.camel@neferteti> <3F9AB9C4.70506@technaut.darktalker.net> In-Reply-To: <3F9AB9C4.70506@technaut.darktalker.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_8Ztm/ytem/EkVVD"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310252201.05141.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop X-Archives-Salt: e9857171-d5de-4c24-8c4a-4f3a04380f49 X-Archives-Hash: 61abb7c9371538a8d3e51918aed943b8 --Boundary-02=_8Ztm/ytem/EkVVD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline > 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 <=3D2.4.0, 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= =20 installed tree, and validates it. We currently don't have such a checker an= d=20 the current checker cannot be adapted to do that either. The problem is tha= t=20 it is very hard to make a checker to do forward and backward dependency=20 checking and still being efficient. We are working on this, and it is certainly high on our list of desired=20 features, but currently there is not much to fix this. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_8Ztm/ytem/EkVVD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/mtZ8bKx5DBjWFdsRAvGnAJwLxY6UmO6fUWOUXeDg+8nMUedH3wCeMFly 35Vun/nkywnIpaNbADKz9cI= =LX+/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_8Ztm/ytem/EkVVD--