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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stabilizing expat 2.0.0
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:24:28
Message-Id: 464C2CB6.5030703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stabilizing expat 2.0.0 by Rumen Yotov
1 Rumen Yotov wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > Might i sugest making an doc "expat-upgrade" and posting it in Docs (or
4 > some dev's space).
5 > This only for those who can't wait and want earlier upgrade.
6 > Even can participate in making it, if needed.
7
8 Three easy steps:
9 1) unmask it
10 2) revdep-rebuild
11 3) profit !
12
13 Really, out of all the build issues one could have with changing .so
14 names, expat is the easiest I've had to handle. It doesn't break any low
15 level portage utils like openssl did.
16
17 It's just _very_ long since you'd have to rebuild 90% of your packages
18 on an average desktop box. Miraculously, things like gcc and glibc don't
19 use it.
20
21 Rémi
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