| Summary: | sys-apps/portage: emerge --ask prompt user if they would like to unmerge a blocker that exists in world file | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) <darkside> |
| Component: | Enhancement/Feature Requests | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | esigra, pacho, roumano |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787755 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760783 |
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 300071, 376695 | ||
We can fit this calculation into the depgraph _solve_non_slot_operator_slot_conflicts method, since blocker conflicts are very similar to slot conflicts. We can add an --auto-unmask-keep-world [y|n] option, enable --auto-unmask-write for world and world_sets in /var/lib/portage, and add /var/lib/portage to CONFIG_PROTECT. |
(Sorry if this is a dupe, i looked...honest =P ) In this situation: %% sudo emerge -av postfix These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-mail/mailwrapper-0.2.1 0 kB [ebuild N ] mail-mta/postfix-2.5.5 USE="dovecot-sasl ldap mailwrapper mysql sasl ssl -cdb -hardened -ipv6 -mbox -nis -pam -postgres (-selinux) -vda" 0 kB [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim ("virtual/mta" is blocking mail-mta/exim-4.69) Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. It would be convienient if portage prompted to unmerge the offender. As in, "blocker $foo exists in the world file, would you like to unmerge this before continuing? (yes/no)" This makes sense because I invoked emerge with -a, so it should ask me. Also, I explicitly called for the mutual blocker to be installed, it didn't get pulled in by something else. Thanks for consideration. ;)