Re: [gentoo-science] sage-4.3.5-r1 && sage-core

["François Bissey" <f.r.bissey@massey.ac.nz>]

> > In my opinion, the best "solution" would be to print out a warning/info
> > after  installing sage-core which basically says revdep-rebuild reports
> > false positives and just wait for the Sage people upgrading to a new
> > release of Singular (see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8059
> > and
> > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8228).
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> A warning is good but I would prefer to to put the libraries linking
> to libsingular in quarantine for revdep-rebuild until that happens.
> Otherwise revdep-rebuild will always want to rebuild sage-core again
> and again. Furthermore:
> 1) we cannot count on users reading the warning.
> 2) during any genuine call to revdep-rebuild to catch other stuff
> sage-core will be added and considering the time it takes it is
> not nice.
> 
I did go ahead and added a revdep-rebuild exception file.
The problem has completely disappeared now.

Francois