On Wednesday 11 October 2006 11:19, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: > [SNIP] > > > emerge -p world had to parse the entire portage tree anyway, it > > could easily check for versioning conflicts while doing it and > > display a message to the user, much like blockers do currently. I > > get it that portage likely can't suggest resolutions but it would > > be nice to see in one display that evas and pygtk requires mutually > > exclusive versions of cairo. > > > > Can portage do this? Is it something useful that warrants a feature > > request? Or am I missing an option in the man page even though I've > > read it >30 times? :-) > > After bug #147766 [1] and bug #16365 [2] have been resolved portage > should detect this. That means that the latest stable portage still > won't detect it but latest ~arch portage should... > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/147766 > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/16365
That's good news. My notebook runs ~x86, meaning I can test the latest portage there and keyword portage on the desktop if everything seems fine. Thanks for the info alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
