On 1/5/06, Tom Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:29:57 -0700 > Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync today. > > My guess is that the openmotif package was made into two separate > > packages, correct? > > > > To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge > > could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then > > automatically unmerge the original package? > > Not really a question to the portage developers -- just unmerge > openmotif (the blocker) and continue as normal.
So what happens to the unknowing user that doesn't figure out that the package was split into multiple packages? Especially if it's a critical system package. They may not like the idea of unmerging the package, and re-merging. > > -- > Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti > AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters > Gentoo Linux > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
