Cant find anything about the "!" operator in the ebuild documentation. This stops the merge of evolution-1.2.1: # emerge -bn evolution Calculating dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the <net-mail/evolution-1.2.0 package conflicts with this package and both can't be installed on the same system together. If the operator is changed to ">=" it merges evolution-1.2.1 without problems. Not sure if this is valid in all circumstances since the operators are not exactly the same. *** gtkhtml-1.1.7-r1.ebuild Wed Jan 8 18:53:19 2003 --- gtkhtml-1.1.7-r1.ebuild.new Thu Jan 9 15:58:57 2003 *************** *** 18,24 **** SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="x86 ~ppc ~sparc" ! RDEPEND="!<net-mail/evolution-1.2.0 >=gnome-extra/gal-0.21 <gnome-base/control-center-1.99.0 >=gnome-base/libghttp-1.0.9-r1 --- 18,24 ---- SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="x86 ~ppc ~sparc" ! RDEPEND=">=net-mail/evolution-1.2.0 >=gnome-extra/gal-0.21 <gnome-base/control-center-1.99.0 >=gnome-base/libghttp-1.0.9-r1
This is the problem mentioned in bug 86.
! means blocker ... its used when packages cant coexist together gnome: i'm leaving this open in case theres anything you wish to do with it ... otherwise feel free to close it
Should not "!<" mean that it can not work with versions less than ..? I did not have evolution-1.2.0 installed on my system when this error occured so it seems that id does not work properly. I had evolution-1.0.8-r2 installed when i got the error sited above. This of course is blocking but ordinary upgrade as I was doing were going to leave the system consistent afterword. Previous version was removed. An upgrade should not be blocked when the blocking would be solved by an successful upgrade. However this has nothing to do with the use of the blocking marker "!" but how this is handled.
*** Bug 13674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reopened until portage is fixed.
The problem with portage is explained in Bug 13674.
What do you want me to do about it ? Your gtkhtml fix makes ppl who want gtkhtml install evolution, thats no solution. I'd say just remove the weird dep and make evolution-1.0.8 block gtkhtml-1.1* (what already happens), whats your take on this azarah .. it seems a big voodoo ebuild to me and you're the wicked conjurer.
> whats your take on this azarah .. it seems a big voodoo > ebuild to me and you're the wicked conjurer. O.K. Sorry if I did what was told to me, but then it turns out that portage do not handle '!' like it should. After all, '!<foo-2' should not install >=foo-2, but just whine if foo-1.* was is installed. Anyhow, I guess wicked people do not care, right ?
That would be evil yes, so i guess its ok if i remove the !< dep from gtkhtml-1.1.7 ? (i'm doing it now). As far as deps checking goes, portage does a lot of things a bit illogical because its much easier or not really possible to implement in another way in the current codebase (last time i looked at the code).
