From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAVis-0005YV-AS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:46:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7VGgHtQ002993; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:42:17 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7VGgGiU029088 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:42:16 GMT Received: from xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at ([128.131.95.22]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAVhR-00073o-9W for gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:44:33 +0000 Received: from xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at (fabian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j7VGiXvt015036 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:44:33 +0200 From: "Fabian Zeindl" To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Extended package.mask Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:44:33 +0200 Message-Id: <20050831163821.M14747@xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.51 20050627 X-OriginatingIP: 193.170.67.159 (fabian) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Archives-Salt: ed168798-914f-45a2-89b2-f30b8f20dbe9 X-Archives-Hash: b96d9519b53c48135da81ee2a484e01b Hi I'm using gentoo and the best package manager of the world for over one year now, and I'm quite satisfied :-). One idea I had: I regularly stumble across ebuilds which are masked in package.mask because they break certain other packages or something like that. It would be genial if portage wouldn't just say "this ebuild is masked cause it breaks XYZ", but detect whether I have XYZ installed and warns me if so resp. emerges normally otherwise. If I install package XYZ some time later portage must of course detect this and say "you have package ABC installed, which makes problem with the package you wan't to install now, what do you want to do?". Is this an insane idea? It would make portage even better if it could resolve situations/environments/configurations where emerging/unmerging something will cause problems. greetings fabian zeindl PS: The second question I want to ask: Why are some packages so long marked ~ unstable when their upstream is stable. Is there a policy how long to mark new ebuilds or something like that? -- ... I want something good to die for To make it beautiful to live. I want a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate. Do you believe it in your head? - Queens of the Stone Age - "Go with the Flow" I prefer signed/encrypted Mail (even if I can't write it myself at the moment due to OpenWebMail deficiencies): Fingerprint: CFE8 38A7 0BC4 3CB0 E454 FA8D 04F9 B3B6 E02D 25BA -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list