From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QoJ0C-0004A5-2V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:43:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4D7C21C277; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165C121C274 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so2801918wyh.40 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:42:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=02CV7kBRFJdWCrIJVeENpDmVIBcU/lI1Y5lZMaOP/rQ=; b=kh9VT3bqHfU0a/19CSkMyGcxl12ftIT7GngqybCPVdj5D4NzHMgPCGC7pa8qqiRZAJ Z7Zth8vflsq21wERR0uxkAOmSITufWzwSus2TCz5RcvgRYxTwK6cSr6U/gGCC3TQqUPy Ul0+my+D5A3q5zZF9ClymuO7n1zCtYFXeBPfg= Received: by 10.227.7.92 with SMTP id c28mr4706533wbc.62.1312306972206; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc1-broo4-0-0-cust780.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com [86.4.215.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gd1sm5202810wbb.10.2011.08.02.10.42.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:39:18 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo Message-ID: <20110802183918.5ef5252c@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110802173846.AF04F21C12C@pigeon.gentoo.org> References: <4E356A0C.7070004@gentoo.org> <4E35B468.10604@gentoo.org> <20110802090832.2cd03a32@pomiocik.lan> <4E3809AA.2050609@gentoo.org> <20110802153134.7cab1727@googlemail.com> <4E380EEA.6080505@gentoo.org> <20110802155454.5fb24cb4@googlemail.com> <4E38123E.90709@gentoo.org> <20110802160554.68059c64@googlemail.com> <20110802181717.6e156630@googlemail.com> <20110802173846.AF04F21C12C@pigeon.gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/g8+A429e+8gCUb_CYtiW1VV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b153abda31a070a9163a988d170d780c --Sig_/g8+A429e+8gCUb_CYtiW1VV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:36:12 -0400 Jonathan Callen wrote: > That statement needs one more qualification: "and doesn't use > portage". Portage will (by default) remove files on uninstall even if > they *do not* match the checksum recorded in the vdb. This implies > that most people will *not* see any issues due to something other > than the package manager modifying the files behind the package > manager's back. Ugh, seriously? When did that happen? That's a massive change to how VDB is supposed to work. Maybe we need to spec VDB after all to avoid that kind of nonsense. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/g8+A429e+8gCUb_CYtiW1VV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk44NkkACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHPkwCePXKFVwz0PIa1HkLvTkByWEmw xFMAoK8Grsp93Nt95Ug2xGpjjJdZqjri =mDwL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/g8+A429e+8gCUb_CYtiW1VV--