From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxNlI-00043q-9W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:24:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE4F3E03BE; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC537E03BE for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so1398280gxk.10 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:24:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=0cPECq+MYWfKlePbHG+K/kURm/4O1ymavMusm2rWrqM=; b=VMN0sIcH1EQeyk/Ael4frFJpuM1CLeLwzYH4tTfUzX6udq3NZZCZIJQue5ngNjrdYX E5jfHpd1CMenlXx/uUbvuf62wVIHjKnOcwI8mMsej8dV4MFDsQ6OAiyh0wTObRghkqEK jYZOCqt+IQ5DMvUp+LKvkIdWknoNI2pv6m9Co= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=T/iMdpCvSJOCsX2l3RUm1F+GnkPpXBSaXQVax3cPM0ofupj2kTDiLvh4HuaOwXU/BG v9NFBT9fsI2J518hUkBWbfw3/X9rhcZ9CmUfS45VgSi/PXM5RLPIPQSMRXzxgGXW66jW zz3/qaH2ZqxUanjxSXE0m21xUUGQhbahVJR0I= Received: by 10.65.218.13 with SMTP id v13mr2258693qbq.49.1225812244655; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.4? (dsl-243-211-235.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.211.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm20732280qbw.2.2008.11.04.07.24.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:24:03 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:23:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <38af3d670811040616r77307a6cxb7237ac4618353cd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811040616r77307a6cxb7237ac4618353cd@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811041723.58876.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3407650a-1f49-4b2b-9b83-d4f78fc318ff X-Archives-Hash: 2401f66e8e643ebd930a5f18bf5deaa8 On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if > any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good > knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. You probably want this enabled. I think it's disabled by default because new users will have no idea whatsoever what to do about it. All it does is check the files it wants to install with what's on the disk. If there's a match, the existing files must only have been put there by the same package (ignoring version numbers). If there's a collision, you get a huge big fat error message and a chance to find out why two different packages install the same file. Maybe you need to uninstall one, maybe it doesn't matter. If it's the latter, just FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge and continue as normal. In any event, you get to decide what should happen. Every experienced gentoo user should be using this imho -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com