Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list

[320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> I just committed yet another bug fix to Portage 1.5_pre1.
>
> So far, I have the following features to add for 1.5_final:
>
> 1. Don't use the "rev" in the package database.  Packages with the same
> version, but different "rev" overwrite each other.  Record revision in
> a REVISION file in /var/db/pkg.
>
> Possibly:
>
>         Only allow one version of a package installed at a time.
>         Override with a DIFFVERSION= setting in the ebuild:
>
>         DIFFVERSION="major" means "allow the same package with differing major
>         versions to be installed"
>
>         DIFFVERSION="minor" would allow foo-1.2 and foo-1.3 to be installed at
>         the same time, but not foo-1.2 and foo-1.2.1
>
> Comments welcome.
>

If a package provides for example virtual/mta, does it work to add
!virtual/mta to RDEPEND to prevent installation of duplicate mta's ?
 I would call the variable MULTIPLE because DIFFVERSION is abit to long in my
eyes.

achim~

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