On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:36:56AM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > We have no control over what Apple will do for a 10.3 -> 10.4 upgrade > which is why IMHO the smokes and mirrors with paths is the best option. > You can't go replacing primary OSX files with GNU ones and expect > everything to be fine when OSX can fex. overwrite GNU sed with it's own > version upon upgrade, or security release or whatnot. Then the user is > screwed. I would expect similar behavior on BSD. Portage is not the > primary handler of the system and it shouldn't try to be.
Phrased much less sarcastically then I did, but yeah, agreed. Frankly, it nukes the usefulness of gentoo macos/osx if portage just stomps whatever the hell it wants. This is why collision-protect is on by default after all. ~brian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
