From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10652 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2004 01:52:44 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 Dec 2004 01:52:44 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CZg9E-0004VI-4Q for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:52:44 +0000 Received: (qmail 10294 invoked by uid 89); 2 Dec 2004 01:52:42 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14319 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2004 01:52:42 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=gpKTDrpE3kP9AjIApUBOccGI9A3RMkVghtT2j3C1jzyh7SpQojISJAKccF9+PymgEvE/8le/QCyK+NFagcYoE8kACt4f36hM2QHzE88bTPwLO5P0+SjYsGgAegllp2lX1CASjiHrKgjih0nMzfWsB5fYZlgdYVYbMCFSTevw/pQ= Message-ID: <13cc2f780412011752538234e4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:52:42 -0500 From: Colin Kingsley Reply-To: Colin Kingsley To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20041202014904.GA15609@twobit.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041201175509.GA32317@darkalpt> <200412011922.56841.luke-jr@utopios.org> <20041201205110.GA10518@nihil> <13cc2f780412011719388ab466@mail.gmail.com> <20041202014904.GA15609@twobit.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: The merge of emerde with emerge X-Archives-Salt: 8d488f6d-48ef-4353-9462-dc70e2a35550 X-Archives-Hash: 88f2237f8b85ad2ff0122296ffdaf654 > Is there a good reason a compile should resume in the middle? > For what legitmate and safe reasons can you support this? > > I have explicitly rejected this many times because there are > no realistic reasons to support potentially broken builds. If > the compile fails, it probably isn't a singularity within that > one file upon which it failed. > > Developers, of whom there is the knowledge of 'ebuild', can work > around the restarting from the beginning issue. I competely agree. I didnt mean to suggest that the current behavior was in any way bar/wrong/incorrect. I was simply explaining how things work. Sorry if that wasnt clear Colin -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list