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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:27:40 -0200
From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:
> 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.
No. In my system (Portage 2.1.4.5) this FEATURE does not exist. I have
searched make.conf.example, and several portage-related man pages; no
mention to "protect-owned".
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