On Tuesday 10 October 2006 22:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: [SNIP] > emerge -p world had to parse the entire portage tree anyway, it could > easily check for versioning conflicts while doing it and display a > message to the user, much like blockers do currently. I get it that > portage likely can't suggest resolutions but it would be nice to see in > one display that evas and pygtk requires mutually exclusive versions of > cairo. > > Can portage do this? Is it something useful that warrants a feature > request? Or am I missing an option in the man page even though I've > read it >30 times? :-)
After bug #147766 [1] and bug #16365 [2] have been resolved portage should detect this. That means that the latest stable portage still won't detect it but latest ~arch portage should... [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/147766 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/16365 -- Bo Andresen
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