From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:57:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806301757.31138.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4867D6D9.5020301@gmail.com>
On Sunday 29 June 2008, b.n. wrote:
> By the way: I find the fact "emerge -pv" just fails in those cases
> extremly annoying. Shoudn't it report the error, skip offending
> packages but let me see what can be happily merged independently of
> that?
Seems a reasonable question, but will be almost impossible to implement,
as how would you define a package that can "be happily merged
independently" of a blocking package?
portage is software, it isn't intelligent so it doesn't know how to
answer that. I admit it's annoying though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-30 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-29 18:39 [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why? b.n.
2008-06-29 18:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-06-29 20:45 ` b.n.
2008-06-29 21:24 ` Daniel Iliev
2008-06-29 21:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-06-29 22:04 ` b.n.
2008-06-29 23:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-06-29 23:56 ` b.n.
2008-06-30 15:57 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-06-30 18:02 ` brullo nulla
2008-06-30 17:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-06-30 20:57 ` b.n.
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