Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Colin Kingsley <ckingsley@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: The merge of emerde with emerge
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:52:44
Message-Id: 13cc2f780412011752538234e4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: The merge of emerde with emerge by Nicholas Jones
1 > Is there a good reason a compile should resume in the middle?
2 > For what legitmate and safe reasons can you support this?
3 >
4 > I have explicitly rejected this many times because there are
5 > no realistic reasons to support potentially broken builds. If
6 > the compile fails, it probably isn't a singularity within that
7 > one file upon which it failed.
8 >
9 > Developers, of whom there is the knowledge of 'ebuild', can work
10 > around the restarting from the beginning issue.
11
12 I competely agree. I didnt mean to suggest that the current behavior
13 was in any way bar/wrong/incorrect. I was simply explaining how things
14 work. Sorry if that wasnt clear
15
16 Colin
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