On Thursday 13 October 2011 14:15:54 Sebastian Luther wrote: > WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency > conflict: > > dev-python/numpy:0 > (dev-python/numpy-1.6.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts > with ~dev-python/numpy-1.5.1 required by > (sci-mathematics/sage-4.7.1-r2::sage-on-gentoo, installed) > > dev-python/pexpect:0 > (dev-python/pexpect-2.4-r1::sage-on-gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > merge) conflicts with ~dev-python/pexpect-2.0 required by > (sci-mathematics/sage-4.7.1-r2::sage-on-gentoo, installed) > > Fact is that sci-mathematics/sage can't be made work without those deps. > Fact is that I want this package and couldn't care less if I have the > latest version of these other two packages. > > If in turn I cared for the other two packages, then I would have to > remove sage. It's a choice but nothing else.
it's a crap choice. users shouldn't have to select from diff sets of packages because some are too broken to work properly. it's a bug and needs to be fixed. and it shouldn't require twisting of arms to make people fix their broken packages. also, sci-mathematics/sage is a poor example here. it isn't in the main tree. if people want to add poor packages to their overlays, they're free to. -mike
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