Dale writes:
> I'm no expert on this package so take this with a grain of salt. Mine
> just updated and portage said to run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" which
> I did. Thing is, one of the packages failed to emerge so here I sit.
> The error says something is missing which is the same reason the
> "emerge @preserved-rebuild" won't finish.
>
> So, looks like you need to rebuild some stuff but don't hold your
> breath on being able to. There is a thread on the forums already if
> you want to monitor it.
I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage 2.2 and
the preserve-libs FEATURE, old libraries are not deleted when an update
installs new, incompatible library. This happens when emerge @preserved-
rebuild has finished rebuilding all packages using the old library, so
they now use the new one.
Without this feature, the old library is deleted after the update, and you
need to use revdep-rebuild to rebuild all the stuff that uses the no
longer existing library. I always thought of this as a big problem with
Gentoo, and it's great that it no lonoger is.
Wonko
