On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:53:28 +0200
Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 13/09/2011 alle 10.28 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh ha
> scritto:
> > In that case blocking just old versions is wrong, since if your
> > installed version is broken and you try to reinstall, you'll need to
> > uninstall first too.
> 
> It doesn't matter as much when it's the same version because then it
> would have the same soversion and thus it wouldn't cause _visible_
> trouble.

It would if the version on / is broken and you're reinstalling to try
to fix it.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh