From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JVJtd-0002hK-C7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:04:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72EAEE027B; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21750E027B for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7268D307 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 06:05:08 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qrGm0tLtzmFd for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 06:05:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B151D8D305 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 06:05:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:04:18 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Blockers (was: Baselayout-2 progress?) Message-ID: <20080301050418.1af639b0@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <47C8E29A.2020003@gentoo.org> References: <47C812CF.2020903@wildgooses.com> <47C82C9F.7040701@gentoo.org> <47C82FB7.9030308@wildgooses.com> <200802291707.17936.roy@marples.name> <47C8E29A.2020003@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/Ir.5kKr=Z8DMbmaurvVOx0z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 9e0303d3-26e1-4858-8987-0505cd196843 X-Archives-Hash: 107e2c6d3ab4e6b69eb140541e5b1707 --Sig_/Ir.5kKr=Z8DMbmaurvVOx0z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:59:06 -0500 Doug Klima wrote: > You just answered your own question. If another package now provides=20 > files that an existing package provides, they must be blockers.=20 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/Ir.5kKr=Z8DMbmaurvVOx0z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHyOPV96zL6DUtXhERApIgAKDWxhBmcTWxbtno8le5I4nYpfe6rwCcDXnZ 4PLDy1EcojdsOMuJ4kpV4NM= =Ep5a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Ir.5kKr=Z8DMbmaurvVOx0z-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list