On 15-07-2008 19:53:47 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: >> Potential problems: >> - might cause trouble for some packages that use custom code for >> unpacking, or due to circular deps, this could simply be solved with a >> new RESTRICT value though. > > As long as this is done to allow a 100% manual override, then this is a > _very_ good idea.
Manual override as in "emerge --nodeps" or something. I have no examples at hand, but during bootstrapping I have more than often a problem with dependencies, which requires careful manual emerging of packages (often ignoring deps) because those deps cannot be compiled or emerged yet. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
