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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:41:55 +0000
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mtime preservation
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2009/11/26 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>:
> Why is this one special? =C2=A0Two out of three do this already, and it
> works.

You mean "two out of three blatently ignored long-standing behaviour
and added a new feature without discussion or an EAPI bump".

>=C2=A0Paludis doesn't preserve mtime

You mean "Paludis carefully emulated Portage behaviour, and is now
somehow being blamed for the whole matter, to the extent that people
are trying to use threats (to the effect of 'I'm going to deliberately
break packages for Paludis users") to try to get their way in the
discussion".

> and it's approach to randomly resetting mtimes

There's nothing random about it.  Files' mtimes are reset to the
current time while being merged, just as Portage did for years.