On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:54:43 +1200 Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reminds me of the other awkward behaviour I once hit where a package > depends on something that is slotted, and mysteriously uses a middle > version of the things that are slotted, and then breaks with that > version that it for some mysterious reason found a preference for, and > upon removing that particular version of the slot, it uses the most > recent slotted version instead, and then works perfectly.
There was going to be a really simple, elegant, ebuild-controllable and provably working fix for that in EAPI 4 in the form of := deps, but they got dropped because Portage couldn't implement it. Which is strange, because it should have been a ten minute job... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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