On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 06:39:18PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:36:12 -0400 > Jonathan Callen <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > That statement needs one more qualification: "and doesn't use > > portage". Portage will (by default) remove files on uninstall even if > > they *do not* match the checksum recorded in the vdb. This implies > > that most people will *not* see any issues due to something other > > than the package manager modifying the files behind the package > > manager's back. > > Ugh, seriously? When did that happen? That's a massive change to how > VDB is supposed to work.
That's been in place a long while; pkgcore has done it from day one also. That's not a "massive change" to vdb behaviour either; file collisions aren't supposed to occur, as such ownership of the file is basically guranteed back to a single package. Throw in CONFIG_PROTECT for adjusting the behaviour, and you have a far more preferable norm than "lets just leave a shit ton of .pyc/.pyo on the fs". Moving on... ~brian
