| 1 |
After sending this mail, I'll be removing myself from the metadata of |
| 2 |
dev-util/confcache ; I've tried maintaining the ebuild and supporting |
| 3 |
confcache usage in Gentoo, but I'm unable to proceed with this task. |
| 4 |
|
| 5 |
The main issue are that confcache codebase, maintained by Brian, need a way to |
| 6 |
check which package changed what in the cache, so that you can find who |
| 7 |
poison it. |
| 8 |
There's then the problem that the failure with the cache happens not with the |
| 9 |
package you need to fix or restrict but with other packages, and you need to |
| 10 |
find the primary cause. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
Finally, the pkg_cv_ values needs to be blacklisted, because every package use |
| 13 |
them in a different way, and thus they result in quite a borkage when |
| 14 |
different packages use the same name for different concepts, that results in |
| 15 |
eternal revdep-rebuild cycles when not using --as-needed, for instance. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
Anyway, dev-util/confcache needs a new maintainer and supporter. Enjoy! |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
-- |
| 20 |
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ |
| 21 |
Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
Archives