>>>>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Blocks do not work:
> * It's often not obvious what the user's supposed to do to resolve a > block. > * Once the user has worked out how to resolve the block correctly, > it's often hard to do so since resolving some blocks is best done by > forcibly ignoring the block, doing the install and then doing the > uninstall. > * It's often not obvious why a block is even there. > * They force the user to do a lot of work that isn't really > necessary. The package manager can be told how to resolve the block > in many cases, and the package manager can, with the user's > permission, do all the work is itself. I don't know if it would be feasible from a package manager point of view, but couldn't some (most?) blockers be avoided if there was some means to transfer ownership of installed files from one package to another? >> c) Marking that a file that used to be provided by one package is >> now provided by another package that is either depending upon or >> depended upon by the original package. >> d) Marking that a package has been moved into another package. At least these two common cases could then be avoided most of the time. Ulrich -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
