Re: [gentoo-user] libgsf weirdness...

["Tero Grundström" <tero@vuosaari.hai.fi>]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Mauro Faccenda wrote:

> Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
>> For past couple of weeks as I was doing emerge --sync and emerge -uDNp
>> I've noticed that libgsf has "jumping" versions. That is one week
>> it's 1.12.0 another 1.10.0 and it swings from one to another. Does
>> anybody know what might trigger this behavior?
>>
>
> This is because gnumeric REQUIRES =1.10.0... and when you do a -uD it
> will be upgraded.
>
> You should keep using -uNp instead of -uDNp ;)

I wouldn't throw away -uDNp just because of this.

On my system there are only two packages that depend on libgsf:

gnumeric =gnome-extra/libgsf-1.10*
librsvg  >=gnome-extra/libgsf-1.6

So librsvg can survive with an libgsf version as old as 1.6.

My solution has been adding these lines to /etc/portage/package.mask:
=gnome-extra/libgsf-1.12.0
=gnome-extra/libgsf-1.12.1

Ofcourse I could also use >=gnome-extra/libgsf-1.12.0, but I prefer to be 
notified if there is a new version available.


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