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Bug 643872

Summary: sys-apps/portage: quickpkg could automatically prevent creation of duplicate packages
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component: Binary packages supportAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: tsmksubc
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2018-01-08 08:17:52 UTC
Currently, quickpkg will create a binary package even if there is already an identical package existing with the same BUILD_TIME metadata. It would be smarter if it automatically avoided creating duplicates. This behavior would be useful in the implementation of the unmerge-backup and downgrade-backup FEATURES, since the code currently has to check for a duplicate package before it calls quickpkg.