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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:56:18AM +0100, Klavs Klavsen wrote: |
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> Hi guys, |
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> I just wrote a GLEP, proposing a solution to the problem that updating |
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> f.ex. openssl, requires recompiling almost world |
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> (kde,mozilla,galeon,wget,irrsi,python etc.) - and breaks your system if |
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> you don't complete all this, while you are running (since the old |
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> openssl files are removed after the openssl upgrade -and programs that |
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> haven't been recompiled will break). |
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> You can see it here: |
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> http://vsen.dk/files/GLEP-Making_updates_never_break_dependencies.txt |
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> I hope you like the idea, and the proposed solution. Please comment if |
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> you have any questions, as I would very much like to see this happen, so |
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> I can run emerge -u world again :) |
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Is OpenSSL broken? The OpenSSL ebuild installs 0.9.6 libs for |
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compatibility to prevent breakage (if 0.9.6 was installed previously). |
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