On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if > > any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good > > knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. > > You probably want this enabled. I think it's disabled by default because new > users will have no idea whatsoever what to do about it. All it does is check > the files it wants to install with what's on the disk. If there's a match, > the existing files must only have been put there by the same package > (ignoring version numbers). > > If there's a collision, you get a huge big fat error message and a chance to > find out why two different packages install the same file. Maybe you need to > uninstall one, maybe it doesn't matter. If it's the latter, just > > FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge <package> > > and continue as normal. In any event, you get to decide what should happen. > Every experienced gentoo user should be using this imho >
On my version of portage (2.2_rc13; but I am pretty sure this is the case for some older ones too), there is the default feature "protect-owned" which provides more or less the same function as collision-protect but is slightly smarter. See 'man make.conf' for details. W -- Don't tell anyone, but duct tape is The Force. It has a dark side, and a light side, and it binds the Universe together. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 698 days, 13:54
