After sending this mail, I'll be removing myself from the metadata of
dev-util/confcache ; I've tried maintaining the ebuild and supporting
confcache usage in Gentoo, but I'm unable to proceed with this task.
The main issue are that confcache codebase, maintained by Brian, need a way to
check which package changed what in the cache, so that you can find who
poison it.
There's then the problem that the failure with the cache happens not with the
package you need to fix or restrict but with other packages, and you need to
find the primary cause.
Finally, the pkg_cv_ values needs to be blacklisted, because every package use
them in a different way, and thus they result in quite a borkage when
different packages use the same name for different concepts, that results in
eternal revdep-rebuild cycles when not using --as-needed, for instance.
Anyway, dev-util/confcache needs a new maintainer and supporter. Enjoy!
--
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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