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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:40:49 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> I don't know if it would be feasible from a package manager point of |
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> view, but couldn't some (most?) blockers be avoided if there was some |
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> means to transfer ownership of installed files from one package to |
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> another? |
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From a package manager point of view, it's probably easier to know that |
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a transfer of ownership will take place (or, more specifically, that |
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collisions between two packages as part of an upgrade or replace |
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process are ok) than to deal with specific files. It's probably easier |
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to write ebuilds that way too -- providing explicit lists gets very |
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messy if we start talking about things that include libdir or bits of |
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CHOST or Ruby versions or whatever in their filenames. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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