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* Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage
  @ 2003-08-27  8:00 99%               ` Jon Portnoy
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From: Jon Portnoy @ 2003-08-27  8:00 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Thomas de Grenier de Latour; +Cc: gentoo-dev, raker

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:53:44AM +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:27:35 -0400
> Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> wrote:
>  
> > Er, they already block each other and dependencies should be on 
> > virtual/motif...
> 
> I know for the virtual, but I confirm they don't block each other:
> 
>   thomas@gromit thomas $ emerge -pv openmotif lesstif
>   These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>   Calculating dependencies ...done!
>   [ebuild   R   ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.2-r2
>   [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/lesstif-0.93.40
> 

Ah, crap. You're right.

I'm pretty sure they used to block. What happened?

(poke @ raker)

> A nice way to not forget this kind of block would be if portage was able
> to distinguish between virtuals that may accept several providers and
> those that can accept only exactly one. 
> 

We handle this in the ebuilds in DEPEND (by using !).

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2003-08-26 22:58     [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-26 23:02     ` Cedric Veilleux
2003-08-27  0:08       ` Michael Cummings
2003-08-27  0:15         ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-27  6:24           ` Rajiv Aaron Manglani
2003-08-27  7:11             ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-08-27  7:27               ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-27  7:53                 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-08-27  8:00 99%               ` Jon Portnoy

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