From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3120 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 23:00:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 10897 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 23:00:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3F4BE9B8.1060809@technaut.darktalker.net> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:14:00 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cedric Veilleux CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3F4BE61E.50600@technaut.darktalker.net> <200308261902.03839.cedric@neopeak.com> In-Reply-To: <200308261902.03839.cedric@neopeak.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] uninstalling packages with portage X-Archives-Salt: deb4c845-c3aa-4eaa-a6c5-85c5bdaf83fe X-Archives-Hash: 408901b3a0896e1c5e160375dd6c34ac 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? -- Andrew Gaffney -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list