On 1/6/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:14:36 -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
>
> > | if_blocked_by('openmotif')
> > | ewarn "You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding"
> > |
> >
> > It would be icky to have to specify blocker logic/messages like that.
>
> Not in the sort of cases that come up most often, where functionality has
> been moved from a package into another. In this case the block is
> entirely predictable. If, for example, you are updating xpdf from version
> <=X to version >X, it will both require and block poppler. The dev has
> already modified the ebuild to handle the new dependency, so he will know
> about the block.
>
EXACTLY Neil! :)
>
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