* Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage
@ 2003-08-27 0:37 99% ` Jon Portnoy
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From: Jon Portnoy @ 2003-08-27 0:37 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:32:02PM -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
> I think the point is, why do they not block each other? Shouldn't they?
>
> Not that this is part of the original thread :)
>
>
Why should they? netkit-base is a package that happens to provide
ping among other utilities; because all of them except the old-style
inetd are deprecated (old-style inetd is deprecated but some people
still prefer it, for whatever reason). It no longer provides ping, just
old-style inetd.
Block each other in what way? How do you know before getting to the
merge stage that files might be conflicting?
The only real solution that I can see is preventing it from happening in
the first place.
Here's something in the same vein:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18181
I guess we need to determine which package provides the best version of
kill. In that case, it's not that much of a big deal because most people
are going to be using their shell's internal kill command anyway,
though.
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