On 04/03/2017 14:33, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 04 Mar 2017 12:42:38 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 04/03/2017 11:45, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> Greetings.
>>>
>>> This is a KDE ~amd64 box, which still depends on kde-apps/kdepimlibs:4
>>> for many things. I've been running happily on =app-crypt/gpgme-1.5.5,
>>> but today portage wants to upgrade to =app-crypt/gpgme-1.8.0-r2. But
>>> that version can't be installed while kdepimlibs:4 is still around, as
>>> I see from the ebuild:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
>>>
>>> cxx? (
>>>
>>> !kde-apps/gpgmepp
>>> !kde-apps/kdepimlibs:4
>>>
>>> )"
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Is it even possible to satisfy that condition?
>>
>> No, but you can mask app-crypt/gpgme-1.8.0-r2 and stay on 1.5/1.6
>
> Yes, I've done that, but why has such silliness been allowed out?
Maybe that combination never got tested? It's a ~arch package, so you
get to be a field tester when you use it :-)
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Alan McKinnon
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