* Re: [gentoo-dev] How well supported is collision-protect?
@ 2005-04-28 12:49 99% ` Georgi Georgiev
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From: Georgi Georgiev @ 2005-04-28 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
maillog: 28/04/2005-08:10:49(-0400): Michael Cummings types
> Have to pipe up on this as I get at least a half dozen bugs a week...
>
> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > On a note, similar to the one about /usr/X11R6, I'd like to ask about
> > collision-protect.
> >
> > - How well is it expected to work?
> >
> Oh, it works, believe me, it works
>
> > - Do you guys expect bug reports about packages with conflicting
> > targets, with possible patches, etc?
>
> Expect is a big word. Let's just say I'm a bad dev and don't follow the list
> of new features in every release of portage (portage folks: i love ya, you
> know that, doesn't mean I follow all the new feature flags and all), so my
> introduction to collision-protect was when a half dozen bugs were filed one
> rainy morning. Perl is in a collidable situation because we offer ebuilds
> that supercede the modules that were installed with your version of perl (on
> account of packages needing newer modules but not newer perl's) - we get hit
> when the man pages go to merge. I'm hoping to alleviate (NOTE: not resolve)
> some of this when we can do versioned virtuals, but until then I sympathize
> with the bug posters and kindly ask them to disable collision protect until
> the module is installed.
Isn't there a way to avoid installing the modules with perl and PDEPEND
on them instead?
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