Am Samstag, 16. September 2017, 22:31:03 CEST schrieb allan gottlieb:
> I am one of the users experiencing the
>    infinite rebuild of binutils
> bug.  Today it took a turn I find worrisome
> 
> To summarize for months now after every emerge I get
> 
>     !!! existing preserved libs:
>     >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.28.1
> 
>      *  - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so
>      *      used by
>         /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so
>     (sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1)
>     Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries
[snip]

No need to do anything complicated. Just run 

emerge --depclean --ask

and have it remove outdated binutils versions (it will keep the current one, 
and also then select it for usage automatically). 

Then all these problems are gone...

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfri...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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