On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:15:59 +0200 Maciej Mrozowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure who is 'we' there, but Portage team already made is useful. > Basic portage rule for soft-blocks behaviour is "no longer referenced > (a'ka 'soft') blocked package can be uninstalled cleanly without user > intervention"
That's not in the least bit well defined, and it's also extremely dangerous. > Zac did good job there saving users (especially KDE users) from > nightmare of handling all package refactoring/blocks manually. The nightmare only existed because of abuse of that feature. Had blocks kept their original meaning, people would not have abused them to the same extent. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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