744400 – 'emerge mpc' doesn't complain about media-sound and dev-libs conflict

Bug 744400 - 'emerge mpc' doesn't complain about media-sound and dev-libs conflict

Summary: 'emerge mpc' doesn't complain about media-sound and dev-libs conflict

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

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Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2020-09-23 22:12 UTC by akko
Modified:	2020-09-24 16:21 UTC (History)
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Description akko 2020-09-23 22:12:53 UTC

on the main repos there are two packages called 'mpc'
dev-libs/mpc and media-sound/mpc

However, when you do a simple 'emerge -a mpc' it merges dev-libs/mpc without warning you that it is ambiguous, like it does when you 'emerge -a git', for example. So I imagine it might be a bug. :3

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-09-24 11:54:06 UTC

(In reply to akko from comment #0)
> However, when you do a simple 'emerge -a mpc' it merges dev-libs/mpc without
> warning you that it is ambiguous, like it does when you 'emerge -a git', for
> example. So I imagine it might be a bug. :3

I am pretty certain this depends on what is already installed.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2020-09-24 16:21:18 UTC

This behavior is intended to be a convenience. Bug 691798 is about adding more configuration around behavior like this.