On 01/17/2013 12:01 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:53:13 +0100
> Rodolphe Rocca <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Wouldn't there be a way to implement something more simple for
>> handling this package move and replacement cases ?
> Doing this properly requires information from the ebuild: ebuilds would
> have to annotate their blockers with an explanation of what's going on.
> We can't tell from a blocker whether it's a move, replacement,
> collision, incompatibility or something weirder. Gentoo isn't prepared
> to add that kind of information, because Portage can't make use of it.
>
> We don't take Portage's approach of just uninstalling blocked stuff
> regardless, because we don't consider randomly uninstalling bash to be
> a good idea. Unlike Portage, we also produce a consistent resolution,
> so you're much more likely to notice when there's a problem that needs
> to be fixed.
>

OK thanks for this explanation :-)

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