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Bug 439042 - portage should prefer a no-masked package when there are more packages with same $PN
Summary: portage should prefer a no-masked package when there are more packages with s...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2012-10-20 09:04 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2012-10-20 17:30 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2012-10-20 09:04:59 UTC 
amd64box pdv # emerge -v pdv
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies /

  
[ Results for search key : pdv ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

*  app-arch/pdv
      Latest version available: 1.5.1-r2
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 85 kB
      Homepage:      http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdv
      Description:   build a self-extracting and self-installing binary package
      License:       MIT

*  app-vim/pdv [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 1.0.1                                                                                                                                               
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]                                                                                                                                   
      Size of files: 4 kB                                                                                                                                                           
      Homepage:      http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1355                                                                                                           
      Description:   vim plugin: PDV (phpDocumentor for Vim)                                                                                                                        
      License:       GPL-2


If you are ok, I'd like to have a preference on an unmasked package. If it is not useful feel free to close.