From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>
To: Cedric Veilleux <cedric@neopeak.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:14:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4BE9B8.1060809@technaut.darktalker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308261902.03839.cedric@neopeak.com>
But, if this *bug* were to happen and 2 packages installed the same
file, would the file get deleted if the most recently installed packages
got unmerged?
Cedric Veilleux wrote:
> I think there is a policy that 2 packages can't share the same files. It it
> happens, it is considered as a bug..
>
>>When portage goes to unmerge a package, it checks that the modification
>>time is the same on each file as when it was installed, correct? If so,
>>what if 2 packages install the same file. If the 2nd one installed is
>>unmerged, will it delete the shared files?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-26 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-26 22:58 [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage Andrew Gaffney
2003-08-26 23:02 ` Cedric Veilleux
2003-08-26 23:14 ` Andrew Gaffney [this message]
2003-08-26 23:01 ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-26 23:19 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-08-27 0:08 ` Michael Cummings
2003-08-27 0:15 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-27 0:32 ` Michael Cummings
2003-08-27 0:37 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-27 8:27 ` Mikael Andersson
2003-08-27 8:37 ` Jason Stubbs
2003-08-27 6:24 ` Rajiv Aaron Manglani
2003-08-27 7:11 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-08-27 7:27 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-27 7:53 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-08-27 8:00 ` Jon Portnoy
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