On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:51 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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 ...

Correct.  There is a reason that we moved *away* from removing
the /var/db/pkg stuff for stage1.  This is it.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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