On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007 16:32:39 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote: > > > Still, is it impossible for features to carry over from packages in the > > > bootstrap stage and affecting depending packages before the dependency > > > is reemerged, without this being a bug in the depending package? > > > > speaking generally, probably ... but here, it is a bug in attr, pure and > > simple ... it should not be using the host libtool > > Ok, I'm mostly trying to justify messing with /var/db/pkg to myself. > Cleaning it out and bootstrapping from there seems like it would reduce the > impact of such bugs.
then you'd hit things like portage going crazy over package collisions ... or in the scenario where the older stage had an older version and the newer version has different files so you're left with orphaned cruft ... -mike
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