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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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  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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