Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?

[Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>]

Have to pipe up on this as I get at least a half dozen bugs a week...

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> On a note, similar to the one about /usr/X11R6, I'd like to ask about
> collision-protect.
>
> - How well is it expected to work?
>
Oh, it works, believe me, it works

> - Do you guys expect bug reports about packages with conflicting
>   targets, with possible patches, etc?

Expect is a big word. Let's just say I'm a bad dev and don't follow the list 
of new features in every release of portage (portage folks: i love ya, you 
know that, doesn't mean I follow all the new feature flags and all), so my 
introduction to collision-protect was when a half dozen bugs were filed one 
rainy morning. Perl is in a collidable situation because we offer ebuilds 
that supercede the modules that were installed with your version of perl (on 
account of packages needing newer modules but not newer perl's) - we get hit 
when the man pages go to merge. I'm hoping to alleviate (NOTE: not resolve) 
some of this when we can do versioned virtuals, but until then I sympathize 
with the bug posters and kindly ask them to disable collision protect until 
the module is installed.

//mcummings
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