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On Tuesday 18 November 2008 22:13:14 Michael Higgins wrote: |
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> At least now I know what happened, but not why it was allowed to happen. I |
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> suppose having an inconsistent tree is a risk with any packages maintained |
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> by gentoo folks? If so, why doesn't this happen more often? Hmm. |
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Because the time interval between commits that do this is actually quite |
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short, probably minutes. The odds of you getting an inconsistent copy that a. |
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affects you and b. happened in exactly those few minutes to matter makes the |
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event quite rare. |
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Plus, intrusive changes like this don't happen often at all. Sooner or later |
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it will affect someone, just like sooner or later someone will win the first |
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prize at the village raffle :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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