Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mtime preservation
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:42:10
Message-Id: 75f3dce80911260441m39885d1codc7f658ec2174a22@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] mtime preservation by Brian Harring
1 2009/11/26 Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>:
2 > Why is this one special?  Two out of three do this already, and it
3 > works.
4
5 You mean "two out of three blatently ignored long-standing behaviour
6 and added a new feature without discussion or an EAPI bump".
7
8 > Paludis doesn't preserve mtime
9
10 You mean "Paludis carefully emulated Portage behaviour, and is now
11 somehow being blamed for the whole matter, to the extent that people
12 are trying to use threats (to the effect of 'I'm going to deliberately
13 break packages for Paludis users") to try to get their way in the
14 discussion".
15
16 > and it's approach to randomly resetting mtimes
17
18 There's nothing random about it. Files' mtimes are reset to the
19 current time while being merged, just as Portage did for years.

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