On Sunday, June 21, 2020 9:25:38 A.M. AEST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 2020-06-20 19:06, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I understand the dependencies problem that they were trying to solve, > > but I don't think the way it was implemented is a great one. > > This isn't a fundamental problem, it's your package manager being dumb. > File a bug; I can think of several band-aids for this, like adding a > flag to emerge that makes it prefer non-acct-* packages and then adding > that flag to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.
Or do a quick check to see if any of the packages are dependencies of one of the other packages, and prefer the one highest on the ladder. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
