On Friday 23 January 2004 08:05, John Nilsson wrote:
> Ok, this thread may be a waste of time but still...
>
> Portage could "taint" packages that is installed with unsupported or
> tainted packages as dependencies. Have portage give a warning about
> tainted packages.

The only way this would work would be if the actual merging of a tainted 
package would taint your whole system forever. Packages can leave their 
trails for long, very long times and have effects all over the place. So in 
the end I don't think it works

Paul

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