No system is perfect. And such a "permanent" tainting could be mentiond in the warning or manual. But this system would still be helpfull and reduce the nuber of bogous bugreports. A package can be tainted when a RDEPEND package is upgraded (if known to break things), like the current python upgrade.
Taint might be a bad word, but a state flag describing the official stableness of installed packages. -John On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 11:00, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > 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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