>>>>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> Different Portage versions do different things with mtimes,

From bug 181021 I conclude that Portage preserves timestamps since
version 2.1.2.10, and 2.1.2.11 went stable in August 2007. That's more
than two years ago.

> so currently ebuilds can't rely upon any particular behaviour.

Show me _one_ user who is still using an older Portage version
(together with a current tree). ;-)

Ulrich