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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage sets support Was: Defaulting for debug information in profiles
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:10:27
Message-Id: CAGfcS_nXEMbHTmYh7iA5XJh+Be5uj=+y+GeEFVptBrQD=DcMnA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage sets support Was: Defaulting for debug information in profiles by Zac Medico
1 On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 12/18/2012 11:58 PM, Duncan wrote:
3 >> I didn't know that. Last I knew, stable portage had special-case
4 >> acceptance of @system and @world to prepare the way, but I hadn't seen
5 >> that full /etc/portage/sets/* and /var/lib/portage/world_sets support was
6 >> stabilized.
7 >>
8 >> If indeed it is as you say, I've even more to rejoice about! =:^)
9 >
10 > Yeah, it's only been in stable for a few months now, so lots of people
11 > aren't aware of it yet.
12 >
13 > The current list available in portage-2.1.10.x, reported by emerge
14 > --list-sets is:
15 >
16 > preserved-rebuild
17
18 If @preserved-rebuild and the corresponding FEATURES=preserve-libs are
19 now stable, we should create a news item about this.
20
21 Otherwise people will still be running revdep-rebuild a decade from
22 now, as this feature was never formally announced as far as I'm aware,
23 and all the mentions of it were ages ago and not available to stable
24 users at the time.
25
26 Rich

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