On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:44:06 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > > >> With #1 the user will get a message about the blockers immediately. > >> With #2 his emerge (maybe of many packages) will needlessly die > >> when it reaches your package. > > > With #1 user will get no message, as neither the user nor the > > package manager know of the merged package that should be emerged. > > So nothing depends on it that would pull in the new package? Now I see > what your problem is. ;-) > > Isn't it possible to package.move -server or -client to the new > package? Assuming you're talking about "global updates" commands: Don't use it for this kind of use case. The "move" command just renames a package in vdb, and using it for anything that goes beyond a simple relocation in the tree _will_ result in problems later on (we've been there already). Marius -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
