On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:55:01 -0500 "Tom Cooksey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paludis won't carry out any action until it has a correct resolution > > available to it, or until you explicitly tell it to cheat to get a > > resolution. > > What that meant though is that I had to trawl through the paludis man > page to work out which command I needed to specify in order for it to > ignore the type of block I was facing. searching for "ignore" as in > ignore blocks didn't help. At the time it was fustrating, all I wanted > to do is download it. From a user-pain point of view, either printing > a hint to the user like "You only seem to want to fetch, try adding > --foo-bar" or simply always fetch would seem like better behaviour.
That would imply that Paludis knows a sane way of resolving it. Unfortunately, because Gentoo blockers don't tell the package manager anything, it doesn't, so the user has to work it out for each individual situation. > I'm pretty sure there's something better, but that worked and I was > happy. Out of a matter of interest, what _should_ I have used? > --dl-blocks discard ? In this one particular case, yes. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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