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From: Ruud Koolen <redlizard@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [IDEA] Enumerate solutions for blockers, to avoid tedious manual work. (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 21:00:16 +0100
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On Sunday 03 November 2013 13:10:57 Tom Wijsman wrote:
> Let's say I have the blocker:
>
>     <dev-python/python-exec-10000 is blocking
>     dev-lang/python-exec-0.3.1
>
> We could have it additionally say something like:
>
>     To resolve this blocker, you can run one of the following commands:
>
>         emerge -1 '>=dev-python/python-exec-10000'

If portage can do that, what exactly is keeping it from resolving the 
situation fully automatically? If it reliably knows what to emerge to get 
unstuck, it sounds like it would only be a trivial step to actually add this 
information to the dependency resolver.

-- Ruud