From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4391 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Aug 2003 13:37:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4869 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2003 13:37:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 06:36:50 -0700 From: Seemant Kulleen To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030827063650.19d8f20a.seemant@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200308272221.00974.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> References: <200308272221.00974.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.3zlfJeH(dvoskD" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Posting to gentoo-dev X-Archives-Salt: 1f595747-0e3d-4f6c-af3b-23da6403367a X-Archives-Hash: 8a2453c70662d2746509fff3e66c7ff3 --=.3zlfJeH(dvoskD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Jason, Please please do continue posting to the list. That's what it's for :) As for the unresolved issues -- the glibc/gcc one you should probably open a bug about it at bugs.gentoo.org The metadata one is best answered by carpaski who is currently (as of last night) 400 emails behind on this list, due to mail server issues that he's had. As for the uninstalling one -- that's also a portage issue. I might suggest coming to irc.freenode.net into the #gentoo-portage irc channel to discuss that kinda thing. The clobbering issue is something that needs to be addressed, and will be in a future iteration of portage, to be sure. Essentially, I think the idea is to *before* merging into the live filesystem, check that a file is not duplicate; if it is, back it up into a tarball and store that. That way when the new package is unmerged, leaving the old package only, then the previously stored stuff can be restored. Dunno if that makes sense or no. In many cases like su, and ping and stuff like that, a decision is usually made after some developer discussion to just axe it out from one of the packages, because the other one has a superior implementation. Hope that helps, and sorry if you felt lost in the flotsam and jetsam of the list. It's honestly nothing personal, it's just the high traffic that -dev generates these days. And of course, you're always welcome to chat with developers and users in a more real time sense on the irc network. Good luck, -- Seemant Kulleen Developer and Project Co-ordinator, Gentoo Linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3458780E Key fingerprint = 23A9 7CB5 9BBB 4F8D 549B 6593 EDA2 65D8 3458 780E --=.3zlfJeH(dvoskD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TLPy7aJl2DRYeA4RAqKmAJ0fqDFJKCekGHX+hTp+vUgStTLAJwCePdlN Mq3AXCljclc0R5D4GaU8RI4= =5wuq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.3zlfJeH(dvoskD--