On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:14:27 -0800 Brian Harring wrote: > This discussion in generall is daft. No package can rely on > nanonsecond resolution for installation because the most common FS > out there (ext3) does *second* level resolution only. As such, I can > pretty much gurantee there is *zero* packages out there that require > nanosecond resolution for installation. We aren't discussing requiring nanosecond resolution. We're discussing not getting corrupted timestamps, which is what happens. If you're building on a filesystem which does support nanosecond resolution timestamps, Portage will screw up the *second* part of the timestamp as well as the nanosecond part. -- Ciaran McCreesh