Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> 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 <package> 
> 
> and continue as normal. In any event, you get to decide what should happen. 
> Every experienced gentoo user should be using this imho
> 

On my version of portage (2.2_rc13; but I am pretty sure this is the
case for some older ones too), there is the default feature
"protect-owned" which provides more or less the same function as
collision-protect but is slightly smarter. See 'man make.conf' for
details. 

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