Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

["brullo nulla" <brullonulla@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The block will in many cases affect only a branch of the dependency tree.
For example, in this case it is all blocked because glibmm wants a masked glib.
Portage knows that glibmm wants the masked glib, so it knows that
glibmm causes the trouble. So it could in principle give me what is to
update except for glibmm and glib - and give me the error about those
two.

Am I missing something?

m.
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