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On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 04:23 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Just to point out... I've seen people mention overlaying a stage-3 on an |
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> existing installation for recovery reasons, generally broken gcc or (on |
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> amd64) switching back to multilib from 64-bit only profiles, so it |
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> /cannot/ be rightly assumed that there's not an existing configuration |
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> in /root/. (Whether that's the right way to accomplish such recovery |
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> isn't the point; the point is, it's done, by people desperate to get a |
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> working system once again who know no other way to do it.) |
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Anyone doing anything like this deserves all the suck that comes with |
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it. If some file gets overwritten on their system, so be it. It's not |
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our job to hand hold when people are doing things that are pretty stupid |
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to begin with when anyone with sense would be sure to --exclude things |
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they know they won't want (like /root)... ;] |
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> Chris's idea of testing both USE=build *AND* that there's no existing |
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> file there that's going to get blown away, sounds reasonable, regardless |
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> of the debate over where the code is eventually placed. |
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Thanks, but if the maintainers don't want to do it, there's not much we |
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can do about it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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