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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:29:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110803002929.GA351@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110802183918.5ef5252c@googlemail.com>

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 06:39:18PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:36:12 -0400
> Jonathan Callen <abcd@gentoo.org> 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.

That's been in place a long while; pkgcore has done it from day one 
also.

That's not a "massive change" to vdb behaviour either; file collisions 
aren't supposed to occur, as such ownership of the file is basically 
guranteed back to a single package.  Throw in CONFIG_PROTECT for 
adjusting the behaviour, and you have a far more preferable norm than 
"lets just leave a shit ton of .pyc/.pyo on the fs".

Moving on...
~brian



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-03  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-31 14:43 [gentoo-dev] POSIX capability in Gentoo Anthony G. Basile
2011-07-31 19:46 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-07-31 20:00   ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02  7:08     ` Michał Górny
2011-08-02 14:28       ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 14:31         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 14:51           ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 14:54             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 15:05               ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 15:05                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 15:19                   ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-08-02 15:20                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 17:11                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-08-02 17:17                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 17:36                       ` Jonathan Callen
     [not found]                       ` <20110802173846.AF04F21C12C@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2011-08-02 17:39                         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-02 20:46                           ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-08-03  1:19                             ` Duncan
2011-08-03  0:29                           ` Brian Harring [this message]
2011-08-03 11:34                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-03 21:26                               ` Brian Harring
2011-08-03 21:28                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-08-03 21:52                                   ` Brian Harring
2011-08-02 15:15                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2011-08-02 15:09             ` Michał Górny
2011-07-31 20:28   ` Michał Górny
2011-07-31 20:27     ` Ciaran McCreesh

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