maillog: 28/04/2005-08:10:49(-0400): Michael Cummings types > 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.
Isn't there a way to avoid installing the modules with perl and PDEPEND on them instead? -- () Georgi Georgiev () It has been said that Public Relations is () () [EMAIL PROTECTED] () the art of winning friends and getting () () +81(90)2877-8845 () people under the influence. -- Jeremy () () ------------------- () Tunstall () -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
