On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:37, Alan McKinnon wrote:
[SNIP]
> emerge -p world had to parse the entire portage tree anyway, it could
> easily check for versioning conflicts while doing it and display a
> message to the user, much like blockers do currently. I get it that
> portage likely can't suggest resolutions but it would be nice to see in
> one display that evas and pygtk requires mutually exclusive versions of
> cairo.
>
> Can portage do this? Is it something useful that warrants a feature
> request? Or am I missing an option in the man page even though I've
> read it >30 times? :-)

After bug #147766 [1] and bug #16365 [2] have been resolved portage should 
detect this. That means that the latest stable portage still won't detect it 
but latest ~arch portage should...

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/147766
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/16365

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Bo Andresen