From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18823 invoked by uid 1002); 8 Sep 2003 00:46:30 -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 23170 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2003 00:46:30 -0000 From: Jan Krueger Organization: microgalaxy.net To: azarah@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 02:52:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Jon Portnoy , Gentoo-Dev References: <200309080208.51371.jk@microgalaxy.net> <1062980914.8455.228.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: <1062980914.8455.228.camel@nosferatu.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309080249.15527.jk@microgalaxy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] suggestion portage ebuild system file modification rights and protection X-Archives-Salt: 34fadc1b-ebb6-4f7e-8e97-94a3249f6114 X-Archives-Hash: 0b667044b214503efdf5c867454517bc On Monday 08 September 2003 00:28, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > Whoever just forgot to add a 'DEPEND="!ezmlm-idx"' to ezmlm, and > reverse for ezmlm-idx ? I do not see how portage will cause that > individual(s) to forget about that ? Portage allows packages overwriting each other and this i functional deficiency that can not get worser as it is. > > > So we don't have enough manpower. > > > > Thats true for many open-source project. Some of them just try to get > > organized more efficiently and succeed in doing so. > > So, maybe there is a more appropriate organization model for gentoo? > > I am also guessing you have not read GWN, and -dev for the last two > months or so ? Yes, i am new to -dev. I dont remember reading about this in GWN, maybe i have missed an issue. > Ok, but the merge code in portage could have a bug bigger than anything > pkg_{post,pre}inst() could ever cause. Yes, ist software. > Right, so that is why we need > all the other safety nets - they could be more buggy ? Sorry, i cant follow you now. > Some times it is not so easy. I know... but should this prevent us from trying? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list