On Thu, 18 May 2006 19:55:34 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Is there any reason that this extra information can not be added in | such a way that portage will just silently ignore it.
Portage's handling of unrecognised data is not sufficiently clever to allow this to be done in any reasonable manner. | > We also construct VDB entries for old-style virtuals, which will | > confuse Portage. | | Is there no way in which portage could be made to ignore this. There are ways, but they all involve adding in really nasty hacks that will just keep on getting messier and messier in the future. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
