On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 > > Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when > downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers > shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages as they will later > cause a total breakage. People is not supposed to know that downgrading > some package system will, for example, have an unusable gcc.
It seems like a die in pkg_pretend would serve pretty well. -- Thanks, Zac
