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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:34:21 +0100
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo
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On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:29:29 -0700
Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >=20
> > Ugh, seriously? When did that happen? That's a massive change to how
> > VDB is supposed to work.
>=20
> That's been in place a long while; pkgcore has done it from day one=20
> also.
>=20
> 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".
It is a massive change, since if the feature is there then people don't
feel bad about writing lousy pkg_ functions that leave a load
of .pyc / .pyo files all over the place.
--=20
Ciaran McCreesh
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