On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/01/2010 12:12 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> Right, so a few weeks later when they re-merge a binpkg, they suddenly >> get build failures again. And that confuses them since it's >> unexpected. This is in general a bad experience for stable users who >> want to get work done, not baby-sit their system. > > Maybe advise them to use post_pkg_preinst instead of post_src_install, > so it works even for binary packages. >
If that won't cause problems with portage-2.1.9 (mtime/checksum messiness, for example; you're the best judge for this), then we should do it. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
