Re: [gentoo-user] Version conflicts when mixing arch and ~arch

2006-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 11:19, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: > [SNIP] > > > emerge -p world had to parse the entire portage tree anyway, it > > could easily check for versioning conflicts while doing it and > > display a message to the user,

Re: [gentoo-user] Version conflicts when mixing arch and ~arch

2006-10-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: [SNIP] > emerge -p world had to parse the entire portage tree anyway, it could > easily check for versioning conflicts while doing it and display a > message to the user, much like blockers do currently. I get it that > portage likely can't sug

[gentoo-user] Version conflicts when mixing arch and ~arch

2006-10-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, A portage question, to satisfy my own curiosity i.e. I know how to fix the problem I had, but I'd like to know if I fully understand how to use portage in a case like this: My desktop is a mostly stable x86 machine, but I use e17- as my wm. x11-wm/e depends on evas which has a hard dep