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