91656 – packages that block could display information about reason

Bug 91656 - packages that block could display information about reason

Summary: packages that block could display information about reason

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2005-05-05 23:54 UTC by Tobias Sager
Modified:	2005-05-06 00:29 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Tobias Sager 2005-05-05 23:54:30 UTC

When a package blocks another package it would be nice to simply see
a reason for that. Might be displayed with --verbose or such.

Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-05 23:58:12 UTC

Would require some way to attach blocker msgs to the blockers, which is a bit intricate...

Comment 2 Tobias Sager 2005-05-06 00:05:37 UTC

I didn't say it's easy.. ;-)

Possibilities I see (bet there are more):
- either put it as string in DEPEND
- put it as reference in DEPEND
- revamp blocking mechanism to have new BLOCKING dependency variable

Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-06 00:29:42 UTC

This is something that affects more than just portage and users. Ebuild devs need to decide what information they want to provide and when before it can be decided on how. Thus, this needs to be discussed on the gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list before we can provide any implementation.