* Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > 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?
This is problematic, since the system must be in an consistent state after the update, or really bad things can happen. And it still doesn't solve dependencies correctly, imagine: foo1: depends on bar1 foo2: depends on bar2 bar1 and bar2 are in conflict. For the special case of one package replacing another one *completely* (eg. the mktemp case), the process could be automated by giving portage enough information and having appropriate logic in portage). But is it really worth all that ? In the mktemp case, IMHO, coreutils is the source of evil: it simply assimilated another package ! We shouldn't let it pass. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
