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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