On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:48:05 +0200 Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 10:09:42 -0400 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Maybe in these cases the PM should make it more clear that > > there was an alternative option. > > Yes, Portage could also be helped out with some output improvements.
That isn't the issue... Developers need to stop being "clever" in expressing dependencies, and start giving the package mangler explicit information about what a dependency means. Relying upon heuristics to figure out what a complicated mess of || ( ) and blockers means just leads to things intermittently going horribly wrong. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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