What is the way I should work around this, then? Is the resolution to submit a patch to the ebuild maintainer?
The gentoo-sources packages are blocking my system upgrades via cave, which may be another separate issue. Taahir Ahmed On Monday 29 April 2013 20:12:31 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:03:32 -0500 > Taahir Ahmed <ahme...@tamu.edu> wrote: > > I have recently switched my Gentoo system to using paludis/cave, and > > I have run into two similar problems. > > > > The first is that I cannot uninstall any currently-installed version > > of sys- kernel/gentoo-sources without also allowing (via > > --uninstalls-may-break or -- remove-if-dependent) cave to take > > virtual/linux-sources (and along with that, nearly half the system). > > That's down to how ebuilds are specifying dependencies: if they don't > explicitly give a slot, or a :* specifier, then we don't know which > slots are affected. Rather than risk breakage, we err on the side of > caution, and assume that all slots are required unless ebuilds > explicitly say otherwise. > > _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list paludis-user@lists.exherbo.org http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
