Zack Medico - Latest comments on Using Blockers to Adjust Merge Order and Avoid Conflicts

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Brad C [Visitor] — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:34:55 +0000

Hey, thanks a lot for this great, helpful post. Blockers are definitely confusing at times, so this is a great help.

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Zac MEDICO [Member] — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:21:36 +0000

The relationship between perl and Test-Harness could be represented as a USE based dependency inside the Test-Harness ebuild, like DEPEND="dev-lang/perl[-build]". Anyway, the blocker approach serves as a potentially useful illustration.

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Donnie Berkholz [Visitor] — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:14:57 +0000

It's a good idea, but I can't help but feel the information is going in the wrong place. Perl shouldn't need to know every package that's incompatible with it; those packages should be the ones saying they don't work with perl.

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Daniel Drake [Visitor] — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:11:49 +0000

That's fantastic. I am often confused by blockers myself, it's great to see portage figuring out how to avoid them. Thanks!

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Joshua Nichols [Visitor] — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:50:27 +0000

This is very cool stuff Zack.

This will go a long way to making some upgrade paths much saner. Boy, if we had this a year ago, the new Java system upgrade would have been much smoother :) Hopefully this tactic can get more widely propogated / documented so developers will take advantage of it in the future.

Keep up the good work!