On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 14:41, Ciaran McCreesh <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:11:43 +0000
> Eduardo Suarez-Santana <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have boost 1.35.0-r5 installed with python flag. When I try to
> > update tagpy it needs
> >                 <dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r5
> >                 >=dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r5[python].
> > However, paludis decides to downgrade it. Does it make sense?
>
> That kind of trickery's not supported by the old resolver (nor is it
> supported by Portage). You'll get fairly dumb results from both...
>
> The new resolver does get that right, but we're a few releases away
> from switching to that yet.
>

Isn't that actually an invalid dependency? Wouldn't the proper way of
supporting that be:
|| ( <dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r5 >=dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r5[python] )

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Russell Harmon
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