Samuli Suominen schrieb: >> And again, downgrade of dependencies it is not against any rule which >> would justify mask and removal. >> >> Another example from the X.org packages, installing the proprietary >> ATI/NVidia drivers will cause downgrades for xorg-server on ~arch >> systems. Nobody in his right mind is proposing to treeclean them because >> of this. >> > > The new xorg-servers could get package.masked until these major drivers > are available. > Albeit, I'm not intrested in pursuing this since with separate > xorg-server package, it's the drivers that need rebuilding against it, > and the VIDEO_CARDS="" setting is keeping it in certain version until > the VIDEO_CARDS="" setting is satisfied. > > Poor example to make a case.
VIDEO_CARDS is just for user convenience. run "emerge nvidia-drivers" on any system with xorg-server-1.11 installed and it will downgrade, no matter what VIDEO_CARDS is set to. > The intresting part of that document is "You should also not cause an > unnecessary downgrade for any "~arch" when ..." which also applies to > setting dependencies just as well. The downgrade is necessary to avoid user-visible breakage. And the wording clearly does only apply to package removals. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
