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maillog: 28/04/2005-08:10:49(-0400): Michael Cummings types |
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> Have to pipe up on this as I get at least a half dozen bugs a week... |
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> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> > On a note, similar to the one about /usr/X11R6, I'd like to ask about |
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> > collision-protect. |
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> > |
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> > - How well is it expected to work? |
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> Oh, it works, believe me, it works |
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> > - Do you guys expect bug reports about packages with conflicting |
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> > targets, with possible patches, etc? |
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> Expect is a big word. Let's just say I'm a bad dev and don't follow the list |
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> of new features in every release of portage (portage folks: i love ya, you |
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> know that, doesn't mean I follow all the new feature flags and all), so my |
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> introduction to collision-protect was when a half dozen bugs were filed one |
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> rainy morning. Perl is in a collidable situation because we offer ebuilds |
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> that supercede the modules that were installed with your version of perl (on |
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> account of packages needing newer modules but not newer perl's) - we get hit |
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> when the man pages go to merge. I'm hoping to alleviate (NOTE: not resolve) |
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> some of this when we can do versioned virtuals, but until then I sympathize |
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> with the bug posters and kindly ask them to disable collision protect until |
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> the module is installed. |
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Isn't there a way to avoid installing the modules with perl and PDEPEND |
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on them instead? |
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