703564 – sys-apps/portage: circular dependency backtracking for || preference adjustment

Bug 703564 - sys-apps/portage: circular dependency backtracking for || preference adjustment

Summary: sys-apps/portage: circular dependency backtracking for || preference adjustment

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 384107

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2019-12-22 21:12 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified:	2019-12-22 21:17 UTC (History)
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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2019-12-22 21:12:40 UTC

As discussed in bug 703440, || preference adjustment for circular dependency solving must occur via backtracking, since "emerge installs packages only to have them removed by depclean" behavior is desirable only when it solves a circular dependency.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2019-12-22 21:17:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 384107 ***