Re: [gentoo-dev] Over using preserve_old_lib, don't do that

[Gilles Dartiguelongue]

Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 08:51 +0300, Samuli Suominen a écrit :
> I've recently stumbled upon several packages unnecessarily using old
> preserve_old_lib feature from eutils.eclass, namely:
>
> libgnomekbd
> libproxy
>
> And then users hit issues like this:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326517#c5

     1. How is it different than preserved-libs feature from
        portage-2.2 ? The issue that I have with you argument is that
        you encourage breaking user apps at build time instead of
        leaving the user some time to run revdep-rebuild or any other
        tool needed when user wishes so.
     2. We cannot (and do not in gnome herd) support users who did not
        complete revdep-rebuild. We help them get out of build problem
        if possible and if the bug still exists by then, we try to fix
        it but otherwise it's just closed invalid.

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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Gentoo