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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] qt-x11 mess
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:12:39 +0100

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:48:48AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the qt-x11 spell is repeatedly giving me headaches due to its brokenness
> > in not being able to build with an older version installed.
> > Right now you can't do a system-update, walk away and have it updated,
> > because the conflict with itself defaults to not dispel, so it doesn't
> > get cast.
> > Please, if anyone has an idea how to get this thing to build even with a
> > different minor version installed in /usr, step up and fix it.
>
> We could modify `conflicts` to take an optional parameter 'y' or 'n', which
> would override the default behaviour of "remove on conflict", then modify
> qt-x11 to say `conflicts qt-x11 y`.

Exactly this got into devel sorcery about an hour ago because we needed
it for the gnome1 spell deprecation :)

> Or better yet, we could modify `conflicts` to have a new form: `conflicts
> self`
> would set the spell to conflict with itself and when being told to dispel
> due
> to a conflict it would default to 'y' instead of 'n'.
>
> -sandalle
>
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