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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@...>
Subject: Re: RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:39:06 +0200
2008-05-29 01:13:16 Marius Mauch napisaƂ(a):
> One concern raised by some people is that it might cause old libraries
> with security issues to stay on the system for eternity even though
> the package was upgraded, and eventually be preferred by new builds.

This shouldn't be a problem, because unneeded preserved libraries are
automatically deleted.

> So, do you think it should be enabled by default?

Yes.

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