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From: michael.lienhardt@laposte.net
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] precisions on installed packages' dependencies
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:38:19 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1914109345.7077150.1584923899601.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net> (raw)

Dear all,

Still in the process of improving my solver (and make it a usable tool), I need to have a better idea on how installed packages should be managed.
I didn't find anything on that topic in the PMS (if I've missed it, I'm sorry).
Could you confirm/correct my following understanding:
 1. installed packages that are still in the portage tree can be unmerged/updated without any restriction (as specified in their .ebuild)
 2. installed packages that are not in the portage tree can only be kept as is or unmerged
 3. before removing a library, "ebuild unmerge" always checks if it is used by another package: this means that installed packages' dependencies are never broken.

Many thanks!
Michael


             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-23  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-23  0:38 michael.lienhardt [this message]
2020-03-23  1:01 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] precisions on installed packages' dependencies Zac Medico
2020-03-23 22:21   ` Re : " michael.lienhardt
2020-03-24  4:13     ` Zac Medico
2020-03-24 18:31       ` michael.lienhardt
2020-03-26  8:06         ` Alec Warner
2020-03-27 13:59           ` michael.lienhardt
2020-03-28  6:48             ` Alec Warner
2020-03-30 21:55               ` michael.lienhardt

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