Bug 407597 – hardblockers and versioned slot deps missing under general-concepts/dependencies

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Documentation

[Description Julian Ospald 2012-03-09 22:40:40 UTC]

Created attachment 304753 [details, diff]
text.xml.diff

hardblockers like "!!app-misc/foo" and versioned slot deps like "~x11-libs/qt-3.3.8:3" are explained in "ebuild-writing/eapi", but not in "general-concepts/dependencies" of the Gentoo Development Guide where one would normally expect to find that information

proposing patch

[Comment 1 Julian Ospald 2012-03-09 22:48:13 UTC]

Created attachment 304755 [details, diff]
hardblockers-versionslot.diff

corrected header

[Comment 2 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2012-04-16 15:20:43 UTC]

There needs to be some documentation for how soft blockers work on DEPEND vs RDEPEND.

When attempting to install a new package which collides with an existing package it fails with DEP=!atom but works as expected with RDEP=!atom.

This was very confusing to me as I expect RDEP to be runtime not mergetime and hence thought the blocker should be acted upon in DEP.

Just my 0.02$

[Comment 3 Julian Ospald 2013-01-01 18:38:03 UTC]

bump

[Comment 4 Julian Ospald 2013-05-20 11:40:09 UTC]

i will apply this as i see fit in two weeks

[Comment 5 Julian Ospald 2013-07-29 21:53:21 UTC]

committed