[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007)

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Long
Jim Ramsay wrote: Whether or not 'move' was the correct action in the recent compiz example, perhaps we need to consider that some times one package does actually make another obsolete. The correct thing for the PM to do is to first uninstall the obsolete package, then install the new one. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI feature suggestion: OBSOLETES (was: gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007)

2007-11-07 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Nov 7, 2007 3:09 PM, Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Ramsay wrote: This could be automated by the PM in those cases with some sort of thing like this in the cat/bar-1.0.ebuild: OBSOLETES=cat/foo Of course this would be a regular package atom (or list thereof), so it