Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Problems with the new no downgrades

2008-04-08 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Petteri Räty wrote: Vlastimil Babka kirjoitti: *portage-2.1.5_rc1 (04 Apr 2008) 04 Apr 2008; Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] +portage-2.1.5_rc1.ebuild: 2.1.5_rc1 release. In the event that a previously installed package has since been masked, emerge will no longer perform an automatic

[gentoo-portage-dev] relying on vdb only

2008-02-11 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Hi, reading comments on bug 209538, I've seen this dangerous thing from Zac: Once these issues are solved it will be nice if we can rely exclusively on the dependencies from /var/db/pkg. Well, the idea that devs will have to revbump packages just for RDEPEND version restrictions so that

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Auto-select slots based on system configuration

2008-02-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Daniel Barkalow wrote: It shouldn't remove the Java VM that java-config is set to. This would be a bit trickier I guess, as every user can have it set differently :) Caster -- gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Depending on active version

2007-01-31 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On a general note, introducing dynamic dependencies into the depgraph worries me, although I'm not sure I can articulate why. Can you articulate metadata cache? :) - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -BEGIN PGP