Re: [gentoo-user] Version conflicts when mixing arch and ~arch

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 11:19, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> 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

That's good news. My notebook runs ~x86, meaning I can test the latest 
portage there and keyword portage on the desktop if everything seems 
fine.

Thanks for the info

alan

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