* Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?
@ 2007-02-08 1:49 99% ` Daniel Iliev
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From: Daniel Iliev @ 2007-02-08 1:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
This makes (at least) two of us (me and the OP) who don't understand the
relation between the request for indication if portage wants to install
a stable or testing package and the bug where in some cases portage
misses that some dependencies are already provided. The feature the OP
requests would be helpful in a situation like this:
The user wants a stable system. The user wants a package with features
available only in the testing/masked ...newer version. In order to get
those features the user un-keywords the package in question. After some
time portage wants to upgrade that package. Now. The user doesn't want
to upgrade the testing version with another testing version but prefers
to revert back to a stable version providing the features (s)he needs.
Here would come the use of this feature which would indicate what kind
of package (stable or not) portage wants to install as an upgrade.
As already mentioned in this thread the workaround is to un-keyword a
concrete version, not the whole package.
Btw the bug is reopened by another developer who also thinks it is not a
duplicate. Lets see if such a feature would appear after some time. ;-)
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Best regards,
Daniel
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