On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:35:47 +0300 Alex Alexander <wi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > The package mangler does not know that 1.1-r300 is not a "better" > > version than 1.1-r200, or that 1.2-r200 is not a "better" version > > than 1.1-r300. Indicating packages where this kind of strangeness > > happens allows manglers to know that things that are usually true > > about the relationship between slots and versions no longer hold, > > and that in these specific cases it should consider slots to be > > heavily independent. > > You already have this info, it's called a "slot dependency".
It's not a property of individual packages that happen to depend upon the problematic package. The property holds or not for a package regardless of whether anything depends upon it. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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