Bug 288618 – app-misc/glimpse and dev-libs/tre cannot coexist, due to agrep

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Bays 2009-10-11 20:47:39 UTC]

I want both glimpse and tre installed; it appears that this is currently impossible.

From the tre-0.7.5 ebuild:
"""
RDEPEND="!app-misc/glimpse
                !app-text/agrep"
[...]
pkg_postinst() {
        ewarn ""
        ewarn "app-misc/glimpse, app-text/agrep and this package all provide agrep."
        ewarn "If this causes any unforeseen incompatibilities please file a bug"
        ewarn "on http://bugs.gentoo.org."
        ewarn ""
}
"""

It caused an incompatibility, which one would hope was foreseen, but it seems clearly unwanted behaviour so I'm filing a bug anyway.

I want glimpse for man2html, and tre for (the latest git version of) elinks.

Of course I can work around the problem by compiling and installing tre myself, but this is an issue which should be dealt with either by portage or by upstream, no?

[Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2011-03-04 18:12:10 UTC]

*** Bug 357393 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2011-03-04 18:13:47 UTC]

   04 Mar 2011; Justin Lecher <[e-mail]> tre-0.8.0.ebuild:
+  Remove collision with app-misc/glimpse, agrep -> agrep-tre renamed
+

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2017-02-17 11:59:05 UTC]

Sorry for reopening this ancient bug the 'fix' seems to be partial:

1. the package still blocks other providers of agrep,

2. the package still ewarns about installing agrep,

3. the manpage is still installed as 'agrep'.

[Comment 4 Patrice Clement 2017-08-20 15:32:21 UTC]

This issue was dealt with ages ago. Closing.