On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:54:27 -0500 Robert T Childers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2009 10:22:30 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Symlinks that're created as part of pkg_ aren't tracked by the > > package manager. It's purely up to ebuilds to handle them. > > I am curious. Why doesn't the package manager track the symlinks?
The package manager does track symlinks that're created as part of the normal process and that're merged by the package manager from DESTDIR to ROOT. It doesn't track symlinks that're created directly on ROOT by ebuilds. Ebuilds are allowed to run arbitrary code on the ROOT filesystem within pkg_ phases. The package manager has no control over what goes on there. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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