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Bug 31574 - Different installation forms of packages should be able to displace packages rather than be blocked
Summary: Different installation forms of packages should be able to displace packages ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2003-10-20 00:57 UTC by Shahar Goldin
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description Shahar Goldin 2003-10-20 00:57:43 UTC 
It would be nice if, for example, mozilla-firebird were able to REPLACE
mozilla-firebird-bin, rather than be blocked by it, so that I can have a browser
while I wait the 5 hours that it takes firebird to compile. This would be also
be nice for other packages like openoffice. Also interesting would be if CVS
versions would be able to displace release versions (mozilla being another
excelent example)
Basically I don't see why certain packages BLOCK packages, forcing you to
unmerge them manually. It would be neat if I could issue a --unblock or
something, which would automatically unmerge the offending package after the
replacement is installed

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-10-20 04:53:03 UTC 
file bugs for specific packages ... blocking is used in different ways, some
of which should not but unmerged ...

but i see your point in mozilla-firebird vs mozilla-firebird-cvs