On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:41:21PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Please review the attached news item which announces the preserve-libs > default for portage-2.1.12. Note that our council has discussed this > change in their 2013-05-14 meeting [1], and they were in favor of > allowing it. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2448/focus=2452 > -- > Thanks, > Zac
> Title: Portage preserve-libs default > Author: Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2012-06-07 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.12 > > Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.12, FEATURES=preserve-libs is enabled by > default. This feature will preserve libraries when the sonames change during > upgrade or downgrade. Libraries are preserved only if consumers of those > libraries are detected. Preserved libraries are automatically removed when > there are no remaining consumers. Run `emerge @preserved-rebuild` in order to > rebuild all consumers of preserved libraries. > > If you would like to disable this behavior by default, then set > FEATURES="-preserve-libs" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man page for more > information about this feature. Looks good. Perhaps you'd like to add that this replaces revdep-rebuild in case it's not obvious to some users. By the way: Whoooo hoooo xD I almost believed this would never happen. -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com
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