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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: What are blocks used for?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:57:22
Message-Id: pan.2008.04.16.11.56.50@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for? by "Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski"
1 "Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski" <mateuszmierzwinski@××.pl> posted
2 4805B02D.2000405@××.pl, excerpted below, on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:52:13
3 +0200:
4
5 > Yes... and then all trashes like old libs are inside system.
6
7 Long since solved problem. emerge --depclean
8
9 > Other thing
10 > is when some files gets from one package to other. If You install old
11 > version of package "A" and then some of files get to package "A1" as an
12 > update and some part of package "A" get's into "B" package. When we
13 > update package "A" to "A1" we can be in trouble when installing
14 > automaticly B and uninstalling "A". Think about that.
15
16 Again, a long since solved problem in the context of the current
17 discussion, as when package A is uninstalled, the PM verifies files
18 against the package database entry for that package, and doesn't remove
19 changed files. Otherwise the normal upgrade procedure of installing the
20 new then uninstalling the old wouldn't work.
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