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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:45:33
Message-Id: CAK2H+eeLyywSranikmmVuGUnDDyQ2tt3857QGcg8-cWv6QT0iQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1 by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:00:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >
4 >> > That behavior can be controlled by your FEATURES settings
5 >> > (collision-protect or protect-owned) and optionally modified further
6 >> > in make.conf by COLLISION_IGNORE.
7 >
8 >> Good to know. I guess the default setting must be to overwrite as I've
9 >> not made any of those setting changes.
10 >
11 > emerge --info will show you the settings in use.
12 >
13 >
14 > --
15 > Neil Bothwick
16
17 Of course, but if you don't know about collision-protect, for
18 instance, then how would one even know to put it there?
19
20 man make.conf does show the collision-protect option, along with some
21 others that look cool. I haven't read that man page in literally
22 years, if not close to a decade!
23
24 Cheers,
25 Mark
26
27 FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles
28 news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict
29 unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"

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Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>