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 1Qoj3n-0002rT-AA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:33:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6CF421C106; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8342D21C0B8 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:32:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so1174275wwf.10 for ; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:32:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=8cfAOQYuudopIxyV6D8meo7YdeBHOhbDaJt2jWQl/N8=; b=oxNPzpBnZux0/VGjhujtHkYuE6mMKYTo1h3BGJuR8H3KK1dIiYfgODucgnplo8bbiv CWFIMK/BZ3o45+XeY/iBN54sFU8wCR2Jt2U/Rhq4urpx8STU8sPIQAxJf+XMOYq+W/8l 2NB7oOdHlDP+fVDJa7cu6JxeYP6rUZZAz3F1g= Received: by 10.216.136.160 with SMTP id w32mr1226572wei.30.1312407148612; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:32:28 -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 g48sm806901wee.13.2011.08.03.14.32.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 22:28:51 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: Brian Harring Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: POSIX capability in Gentoo Message-ID: <20110803222851.05b6c454@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110803212656.GA4212@localhost> References: <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> <20110802183918.5ef5252c@googlemail.com> <20110803002929.GA351@localhost> <20110803123421.75bb6bde@googlemail.com> <20110803212656.GA4212@localhost> 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_/fkT1o9X6yLFzLO/oGbRySbg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 16e3e96b63c76294108802242842f200 --Sig_/fkT1o9X6yLFzLO/oGbRySbg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:26:56 -0700 Brian Harring wrote: > Aka, ebuild's should be written to assume the files they install get=20 > wiped; there is *zero* mention of mtime, nor could any ebuild rely on=20 > it and be compliant. But as it's a FEATURE, they can't assume that at all. So either we spec VDB and the unmerge process, which gets horrible for all kinds of reasons, or ebuilds can't assume that things that have been modified get wiped. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/fkT1o9X6yLFzLO/oGbRySbg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk45vZYACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHcSwCfWINxV5kzxSXzimxNUdmoVyTX v+YAnR2nFgFslaK/4ADByjO0DssIZf9r =awQW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/fkT1o9X6yLFzLO/oGbRySbg--