Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:22:06 +0900
Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org> wrote:

> PackageA is installed, PackageB is installed, PackageB is
> uninstalled -> PackageA is broken. Does this case exist?

Found two on my system: 

 * "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults -> /etc/X11/app-defaults" is
installed by several X11 apps (media-gfx/xfig, x11-misc/seyon,
x11-misc/xvkbd, and i would not be surprised there are others)

 * "/usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-ppds -> /usr/share/ppd" is
installed by both net-print/foomatic-db and net-print/hplip.

Maybe this particular packages could be hacked to avoid need for
the symlinks (or the symlinks should be installed only by some
lower level, depended-on, packages?), but anyway it would be hard
to do a strict sanity check of the whole tree. And letting that to
"collision-protect" feature doesn't sound really like a short term
solution neither. So, basically, i don't see how you could safely
change this portage behavior atm (although i agree it would be a
good thing once done).

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TGL.
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