Ticket #1247 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 12 months ago

Last modified 12 months ago

Resolver gives up too easily on `cave resolve libreoffice-bin`

Reported by: ant Owned by:
Priority: Sometime Milestone:
Component: clients/cave Version: 0.74.1
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Distribution: Gentoo

Description

Originally from  here.

~ $ cave resolve libreoffice-bin --explain libreoffice 
... 
Explaining requested decisions: 

For app-office/libreoffice:0::(install_to_slash): 
    The following constraints were in action: 
      * !app-office/libreoffice, use existing if possible, installing to / (nothing is fine too) 
        Because of !app-office/libreoffice from app-office/libreoffice-bin-3.5.2.2-r1:0::gentoo 
      * >=app-office/libreoffice-3.5, use existing if possible, installing to / 
        Because of >=app-office/libreoffice-3.5 from app-office/libreoffice-l10n-3.5.4:0::gentoo, key 'Run dependencies', labelled 'RDEPEND' (originally || ( >=app-office/libreoffice-3.5 >=app-office/libreoffice-bin-3.5 )) 
    No decision could be made

Change History

comment:1 Changed 12 months ago by ciaranm

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to invalid
No, the resolver does the right thing here. When a
dependency is encountered, it means "prefer as far to the left as you can".
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