On Mon, 18 May 2009 17:47:52 +0300 Petteri Räty <[email protected]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Mon, 18 May 2009 13:04:27 +0300 > > Alex Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Unfortunately we've got reports from paludis users stating that > >> they can't update QT from qting-edge anymore. > > > > Paludis treats blocks as strong, the way Portage used to and the way > > PMS defined them until we had to retroactively change it to allow > > Portage's newer behaviour... > > Unfortunate but what does this have to do with the original question? > EAPI 2 moved to the new soft behavior and as far as I know all qt > ebuilds are EAPI 2.
The definition of soft behaviour allows soft blockers to be treated identically to hard blockers. We had to do it this way because Portage's rules for soft blockers are too fuzzy and arbitrary to turn into a formal specification -- they were a "code first, think later" solution with which we can't do anything useful. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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