Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: split up media-sound/ category
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:19:41
Message-Id: 20110623101600.3c64d10a@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: split up media-sound/ category by "Jesús J. Guerrero Botella"
1 On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:08:35 +0200
2 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.botella@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > But it's also true that besides the symlinks, the portage tree will
4 > be broken the same moment you put it into a fat volume, because it
5 > will directly erase all the permissions and ownership metadata.
6
7 Those don't matter to a package manager, beyond that they're readable
8 by every process. What does matter is mtimes.
9
10 --
11 Ciaran McCreesh

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