[gentoo-dev] Re: How well supported is collision-protect?

[R Hill <deemkay@gmail.com>]

Rumen Yotov wrote:
> Can confirm that (much less collisons with 2005.0), but as there exist
> some persistant collisions (nvidia-kernel, alsa-driver, some perl
> modules, etc.) So i've put these in package.features/package.env file
> (from Portage-Toys tools) to disable "collision-protect" just for them.
> Also thinking about again begin using "maketest" and do the same for
> failing packages, but not sure as there were quite a bit of packages
> that didn't pass the "tests".

If you do decide to start using the test feature, i've been using bug 
#73031 is a tracker for system packages (that is, packages included in 
'emerge system', not packages in category sys-...).  For world packages, 
you might get a thanks or you might get cussed at and your bug closed as 
invalid, depending on the maintainer.  Best to include patches.  ;P

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