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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: phajdan.jr@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] collision-protect -> protect-owned ?
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:07:20
Message-Id: 20130103060634.36651c2e@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] collision-protect -> protect-owned ? by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:49:02 -0800
2 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > It came up again with <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449918>,
5 > and I think it's worth to think about a better fix. I still keep hitting
6 > mysterious collisions with orphaned files from time to time.
7 >
8 > How about switching the developer profile from collision-protect to
9 > protect-owned, and proceeding with enabling protect-owned by default for
10 > all profiles? (not all developers are using the developer profile)
11
12 Well, it all depends.
13
14 protect-owned is easy and lazy. You just get errors on package
15 collisions, care about nothing else.
16
17 collision-protect cares about every collision. It can help you notice
18 that *your* package lefts orphaned files for some reason or writes
19 where it is not supposed to write.
20
21 --
22 Best regards,
23 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] collision-protect -> protect-owned ? "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>