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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 21:02:28
Message-Id: CAK2H+ec=N6DiTy02TwBfYBFyTcHPKoo2yHbf3=Wwm=-Jo9J+hg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1 by Paul Hartman
1 On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman
2 <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
3 <SNIP>
4 >>
5 >> OK, here I saw the same file list but the emerge didn't fail. The
6 >> installation told me it was overwriting the files because no one
7 >> claimed to own them.
8 >>
9 >> That's some sort of ebuild problem and I'd agree that a bug should be filed.
10 >
11 > That behavior can be controlled by your FEATURES settings
12 > (collision-protect or protect-owned) and optionally modified further
13 > in make.conf by COLLISION_IGNORE.
14 >
15
16 Good to know. I guess the default setting must be to overwrite as I've
17 not made any of those setting changes.
18
19 - Mark

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