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On 12/20/2012 03:00 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> sorry for the format, this was |
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> Sent from my iPhone |
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> On 2012-12-20, at 4:51 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:09:45 -0500 |
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>> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> |
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>>> wrote: |
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>>>> On 12/18/2012 11:58 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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>>>>> I didn't know that. Last I knew, stable portage had special-case |
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>>>>> acceptance of @system and @world to prepare the way, but I hadn't |
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>>>>> seen that full /etc/portage/sets/* and /var/lib/portage/world_sets |
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>>>>> support was stabilized. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> If indeed it is as you say, I've even more to rejoice about! =:^) |
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>>>> Yeah, it's only been in stable for a few months now, so lots of |
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>>>> people aren't aware of it yet. |
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>>>> The current list available in portage-2.1.10.x, reported by emerge |
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>>>> --list-sets is: |
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>>>> preserved-rebuild |
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>>> If @preserved-rebuild and the corresponding FEATURES=preserve-libs are |
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>>> now stable, we should create a news item about this. |
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>>> Otherwise people will still be running revdep-rebuild a decade from |
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>>> now, as this feature was never formally announced as far as I'm aware, |
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>>> and all the mentions of it were ages ago and not available to stable |
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>>> users at the time. |
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>> We really shouldn't... EAPI 5 is the way to go, not preserve-libs. |
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> preserved-libs complements EAPI5, it should not disappear. |
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Plus, if we are somehow able to do away with preserve-libs then we also |
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need to ban preserve_old_lib from eutils.eclass, since it's the same |
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thing only worse due to its lack of automatic garbage collection. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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