[gentoo-dev] Looking for a confcache maintainer

[gentoo-dev] Looking for a confcache maintainer

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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After sending this mail, I'll be removing myself from the metadata of 
dev-util/confcache ; I've tried maintaining the ebuild and supporting 
confcache usage in Gentoo, but I'm unable to proceed with this task.

The main issue are that confcache codebase, maintained by Brian, need a way to 
check which package changed what in the cache, so that you can find who 
poison it.
There's then the problem that the failure with the cache happens not with the 
package you need to fix or restrict but with other packages, and you need to 
find the primary cause.

Finally, the pkg_cv_ values needs to be blacklisted, because every package use 
them in a different way, and thus they result in quite a borkage when 
different packages use the same name for different concepts, that results in 
eternal revdep-rebuild cycles when not using --as-needed, for instance.

Anyway, dev-util/confcache needs a new maintainer and supporter. Enjoy!

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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a confcache maintainer

[Stuart Herbert]

On 9/8/06, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> wrote:
> After sending this mail, I'll be removing myself from the metadata of
> dev-util/confcache ; I've tried maintaining the ebuild and supporting
> confcache usage in Gentoo, but I'm unable to proceed with this task.

I'll take it back.

Best regards,
Stu

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