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On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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> collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if |
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> any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good |
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> knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. |
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You probably want this enabled. I think it's disabled by default because new |
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users will have no idea whatsoever what to do about it. All it does is check |
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the files it wants to install with what's on the disk. If there's a match, |
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the existing files must only have been put there by the same package |
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(ignoring version numbers). |
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If there's a collision, you get a huge big fat error message and a chance to |
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find out why two different packages install the same file. Maybe you need to |
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uninstall one, maybe it doesn't matter. If it's the latter, just |
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FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge <package> |
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and continue as normal. In any event, you get to decide what should happen. |
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Every experienced gentoo user should be using this imho |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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