I have installed vim-7 and I can install supertab while this dependency exists in vim.eclass: # app-vim blocks if [[ "${MY_PN}" != "vim-core" ]] ; then # align: bug 79982 RDEPEND="${RDEPEND} !<app-vim/align-30-r1 !app-vim/vimspell !<app-vim/vimbuddy-0.9.1-r1 !<app-vim/autoalign-11 !app-vim/supertab" fi
Hmm, this looks like it's really a problem in portage itself, so I'm assigning it to them. To test, do this: If you don't already have vim installed: $ emerge vim Now, try this. It *should* fail because of a blockage, but it doesn't. $ emerge -p supertab But this does fail properly. $ emerge -p supertab vim Only the third emerge blocks, when vim is explicitly on the list if packages to merge. The second should block too, but it doesn't.
For the time being, blockers must be listed in both/all blocking packages. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48195 ***
(In reply to comment #2) > For the time being, blockers must be listed in both/all blocking packages. That's good for performance, especially if we don't cache blockers somehow. Otherwise, we'd have to scan for blockers in the deps of all installed packages every time that the user tries to merge something. Even if we did try to cache the blockers, then we'd run into the problem of the cache being invalidated by changes to ebuilds in the tree (since installed packages effectively use the latest dependency data from the tree).
Okay, thanks for the info. I've fixed the app-vim ebuilds blocked in the vim.eclass to also block >=app-editors/vim-core-7
