177208 – Make emerge -u solve ambiguous category by looking if only one of the choises is installed

Bug 177208 - Make emerge -u solve ambiguous category by looking if only one of the choises is installed

Summary: Make emerge -u solve ambiguous category by looking if only one of the choises...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Blocks:	181949
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Reported:	2007-05-05 17:22 UTC by Petteri Räty (RETIRED)
Modified:	2007-09-25 16:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-05 17:22:49 UTC

Take for example dev-util/git and app-misc/git. If I specify emerge --update it would be logical to look at if only one of them is installed and then use that one.