Bug 7274

Summary:	enabling ! deps for specific versions
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	drobbins, mholzer, radek, vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-30 13:40:53 UTC

for example, things like xmms-aalsa can _only_ run with alsa 5 and not alsa9...

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-31 23:34:55 UTC

use <=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.5.*

if this doesnt satisfy you post to Bug 1442

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-01 01:42:57 UTC

no, not quite, because we don't want the user to downgrade, spanky.

this issue was discussed between Daniel and I in irc, and the bug was opened at
his request.

Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-19 06:22:45 UTC

this is in portage :D