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From: "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 19:37:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c32af40711071037n19716a45xdad7f3b2b361c524@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fgsgo0$ues$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Nov 7, 2007 3:09 PM, Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> Jim Ramsay wrote:
>
> > This could be automated by the PM in those cases with some sort of
> > thing like this in the cat/bar-1.0.ebuild:
> >
> >   OBSOLETES="cat/foo"
> >
> > Of course this would be a regular package atom (or list thereof), so it
> > could be tied to specific versions of cat/foo.
> >
> I really like that idea. (A RECOMMENDS thing similar to debian would be nice
> too.)
>

Agreed. Recomendation could be queried in a standarised way and at any
time (not only after installing a package). It'd be more reliable than
current pkg_postinst messages.

Regards,
Santiago

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1IpCox-0008Sj-Sg@stork.gentoo.org>
2007-11-06 16:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007 Mark Loeser
2007-11-06 16:25   ` Doug Klima
2007-11-06 19:18   ` Petteri Räty
2007-11-06 20:03   ` Marius Mauch
2007-11-06 21:23     ` [gentoo-dev] EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007) Jim Ramsay
2007-11-07 14:09       ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-07 18:37         ` Santiago M. Mola [this message]
2007-11-08  4:50       ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers

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