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From: Stefan Jones <cretin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing new Prelinking Guide
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:32:42
Message-Id: 1041780593.1422.39.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing new Prelinking Guide by Bart Lauwers
1 On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 15:17, Bart Lauwers wrote:
2 > I've been wondering about the impact on portage however. Will portage know to
3 > unmerge these prelinked binaries still? My guess would be no.
4 >
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6 Well the answer is yes, the portage changes are already in and working,
7 test it if you want. Portage integration is seamless .
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9 > General remark: Prelinking definitely promises to be great but unless your
10 > willing to deal with some 'early adoption' quirks it isn't for you yet. I've
11 > broken my system once or twice severely trying to gauge it's state. I would
12 > say that some challenges remain before it is ready for the masses.
13 >
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15 The problem is that I have never had a single problem with it on three
16 computers (one of which being a sparc ). I can only fix errors I can
17 replicate.
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