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On 07/02/2010 08:51 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> I've recently stumbled upon several packages unnecessarily using old |
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> preserve_old_lib feature from eutils.eclass, namely: |
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> libgnomekbd |
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> libproxy |
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> And then users hit issues like this: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326517#c5 |
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> Please only use the preserve_old_lib function in case of breaking: |
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> - base-system |
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> - toolchain |
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> - or the library is so widely used that revdep-rebuilding the system |
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> would be nearly impossible without having the old lib around since |
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> revdep-rebuild (emerge) can't get the emerge ordering right (because of |
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> overlinking and lack of asneeded by default, namely jpeg and png comes |
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> into mind) |
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Futhermore the old library gets injected to binpkgs as a file of the new |
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package, see recent bug: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/326275 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326275#c7 |