Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-16 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwin7;ski
Richard Freeman pisze: Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski wrote: And I strongly suggest to leave old mechanism of portage, because we saw couple times what _GREAT_ automatic makes with distro - eg. Mandriva with all creators and cheap installer - couple apps not running, low performance. Don

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-16 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwin7;ski
Donnie Berkholz pisze: On 06:24 Wed 16 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: What all are blocks used for? a) Marking that two unrelated packages are mutually incompatible at runtime because they happen to collide, for example on a commonly named executable. b) Marking that two related implement

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-15 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwin7;ski
Ciaran McCreesh pisze: What all are blocks used for? a) Marking that two unrelated packages are mutually incompatible at runtime because they happen to collide, for example on a commonly named executable. b) Marking that two related implementations are mutually incompatible at runtime because t