From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IppqN-0003FP-9H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:41:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA7IeKXH010100; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:40:20 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA7IbZ1V006309 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:37:35 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so2403235nfh for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:37:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=JRhGtT98c1RUxw9q6dAG+AIz926xzlYanN5TLNE+sTs=; b=d51204FOsS8povJnSSMiw1ft3pX63N37D2h3yZlSEI3FHfJgIEcurRIYQbkAP/MGrpLX8VlS1A1chZ+NCWnQCXR+DufevzDb0/lxte6epRXgAaJvy82lTwka7PMzYk28LozROpH8jQVE8/HE2arlqL3+zoxruzPgnLprAIRoGh0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=M+GtCs3oHDXeX6LomEx0PB8eWkV7z9DicgfJvNpABeQeKhQ96coqPrF8GElEcIb/YTL62a3/ViPcGxMLiLXVos78t3/44ozKmyAZNiXaO3+NkfjPA+pbfM9th4vu5jZcInD9BCajuQJ6wm17UPFgGBTZaGHBGwH02Y530wPEJZY= Received: by 10.78.201.10 with SMTP id y10mr6392163huf.1194460654686; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:37:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.177.11 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:37:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3c32af40711071037n19716a45xdad7f3b2b361c524@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 19:37:34 +0100 From: "Santiago M. Mola" Sender: cooldwind@gmail.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007) In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071106161512.GA21625@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20071106210317.da2c9676.genone@gentoo.org> <20071106162335.482c6e4f@vrm378-02> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 55d9ab7cd1bb17c1 X-Archives-Salt: b388f1f5-b34e-49ff-8a29-11326c83950d X-Archives-Hash: 8fa881711ee3ce3c0e6d706bf06ab0d9 On Nov 7, 2007 3:09 PM, Steve Long 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 -- Santiago M. Mola -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list