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 :-) _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
