Have to pipe up on this as I get at least a half dozen bugs a week... On Wednesday 27 April 2005 08:29 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > On a note, similar to the one about /usr/X11R6, I'd like to ask about > collision-protect. > > - How well is it expected to work? > Oh, it works, believe me, it works
> - Do you guys expect bug reports about packages with conflicting > targets, with possible patches, etc? Expect is a big word. Let's just say I'm a bad dev and don't follow the list of new features in every release of portage (portage folks: i love ya, you know that, doesn't mean I follow all the new feature flags and all), so my introduction to collision-protect was when a half dozen bugs were filed one rainy morning. Perl is in a collidable situation because we offer ebuilds that supercede the modules that were installed with your version of perl (on account of packages needing newer modules but not newer perl's) - we get hit when the man pages go to merge. I'm hoping to alleviate (NOTE: not resolve) some of this when we can do versioned virtuals, but until then I sympathize with the bug posters and kindly ask them to disable collision protect until the module is installed. //mcummings -- -----o()o--------------------------------------------- Michael Cummings | #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-perl Gentoo Perl Dev | on irc.freenode.net -----o()o--------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
