From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Blockers (was: Baselayout-2 progress?)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:04:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080301050418.1af639b0@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C8E29A.2020003@gentoo.org>
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:59:06 -0500
Doug Klima <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> You just answered your own question. If another package now provides
> files that an existing package provides, they must be blockers.
That's really bad policy -- it's pushing a package manager limitation
onto users in a visible and highly messy way. Really, it needs to go in
the short term (along with collision-protect) to avoid this kind of
nonsense on upgrades, and in the long term be fixed by getting rid of
blockers in favour of a more verbose syntax that gives the package
manager the information it needs to handle all this itself.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-01 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 14:12 [gentoo-dev] Baselayout-2 progress? Ed W
2008-02-29 14:16 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2008-02-29 15:56 ` Ed W
2008-02-29 16:02 ` Doug Klima
2008-02-29 16:15 ` Ed W
2008-02-29 16:30 ` Doug Klima
2008-02-29 17:07 ` Roy Marples
2008-02-29 18:32 ` Stefan Hellermann
2008-02-29 19:45 ` Roy Marples
2008-02-29 19:57 ` Stefan Hellermann
2008-02-29 20:15 ` Doug Klima
2008-02-29 20:31 ` Stefan Hellermann
2008-02-29 23:17 ` Ed Wildgoose
2008-03-01 2:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-03-01 4:59 ` Doug Klima
2008-03-01 5:04 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-03-01 9:49 ` Duncan
2008-03-01 10:50 ` Roy Marles
2008-03-01 19:17 ` Duncan
2008-03-01 22:50 ` [gentoo-dev] " Bernd Steinhauser
2008-03-01 23:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-03-02 0:55 ` Bernd Steinhauser
2008-02-29 17:01 ` [gentoo-dev] " Roy Marples
2008-02-29 17:50 ` Benedikt Bšoehm
2008-02-29 23:19 ` Ed Wildgoose
2008-02-29 23:23 ` Ed Wildgoose
2008-03-01 0:56 ` Roy Marples
2008-03-01 22:26 ` Ed W
2008-03-01 22:29 ` Roy Marples
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