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

[Vlastimil Babka]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:

* Bernd Steinhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:

Hi,

e) A package needs a newer version of another package, but doesn't depend on it.

This was the case with KDE4. kdelibs-4.0.x block these packages:
    !<kde-base/kdebase-3.5.7-r6
    !<kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.7-r1
    !=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8
    !=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r1
    !=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r2
    !=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.8

never conflicting each other. So some package kfoo either depends
on kdelibfoo-3.x OR kdelibfoo-4.x.

I don't know very much about KDE stuff, since I got rid of it for a long time, but IMHO it seems there's an principle problem on the install layout - 3.x and 4.x should be completely separate, Of course I don't know whether the problems comes from ebuilds or upstream ;-o

If you don't know why the blocks nned to be there then why comment on that?
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Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
Gentoo/Java

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