On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 18:05, John Nilsson wrote: > Portage could "taint" packages that is installed with unsupported or > tainted packages as dependencies. Have portage give a warning about > tainted packages.
Hey, that's pretty good. > This way a user could easily resolve these kind of problem without > submiting a bugreport. Or perhaps, if it's implemented in the same way that ~arch is (perhaps, um, ^arch?), or ~arch but bound to a different environment variable than KEYWORDS) then there is loud and clear warning that you're doing something unsupported... ... but keeping it in (near?) the tree (a different tree) so that we can still leverage the core Portage toolchain to manage our systems. [Total respect to Spider and others who have pointed out the possible support / bug report nightmare that scenarios along these lines might engender] AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia: +61 2 9977 6866 North America: +1 646 472 5054 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
