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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:29:44
Message-Id: 44D1882C.1030306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation) by Lance Albertson
1 Lance Albertson wrote:
2 > I think the point a lot of people are concerned about are packages that
3 > contain libraries or other dependencies that reside in the sunrise tree.
4 > There's a good chance that a package in the regular tree will link
5 > against a package from sunrise, the user will have no idea or forget
6 > that they installed that app from sunrise (and the dep exists), and a
7 > bug arises. Who's fault is it? Is it the package maintainer in the
8 > regular tree, or sunrise? How do you stop excessive bug traffic for
9 > issues like this?
10
11 You create `emerge --info` output that details any packages on the
12 system installed from an overlay.
13
14 Thanks,
15 Donnie
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