On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:22:06 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PackageA is installed, PackageB is installed, PackageB is > uninstalled -> PackageA is broken. Does this case exist? Found two on my system: * "/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults -> /etc/X11/app-defaults" is installed by several X11 apps (media-gfx/xfig, x11-misc/seyon, x11-misc/xvkbd, and i would not be surprised there are others) * "/usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-ppds -> /usr/share/ppd" is installed by both net-print/foomatic-db and net-print/hplip. Maybe this particular packages could be hacked to avoid need for the symlinks (or the symlinks should be installed only by some lower level, depended-on, packages?), but anyway it would be hard to do a strict sanity check of the whole tree. And letting that to "collision-protect" feature doesn't sound really like a short term solution neither. So, basically, i don't see how you could safely change this portage behavior atm (although i agree it would be a good thing once done). -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
