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On Wednesday 06 June 2012 14:06:47 Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> The problem is that grep keeps linked against libpcre and it can cause |
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> problems like pointed in referred bug report, and it's really risky as |
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> people can have their portage completely broken for example when libpcre |
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> is downgraded for some reason. That doesn't sound like a good *default* |
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> behavior for me |
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there are plenty of core tools that can be broken by other packages forcing |
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broken behavior like library downgrades. and FEATURES=preserve-libs would |
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gracefully handle this. |
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off the top of my head, lib dependencies that can bring a system down: |
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- bash links against ncurses & readline |
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- sed links against acl |
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- coreutils links against acl/libcap/selinux/gmp |
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- grep links against pcre |
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(with at least USE=acl being a profile default) |
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so highlighting the grep/pcre dep doesn't seem like it accomplishes much |
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-mike |
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