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Sorry I'm a bit late to the thread, |
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Just to add that empathy preserves libemapthy in this manner too. |
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On 05/07/10 17:40, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: |
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> 1. How is it different than preserved-libs feature from |
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> portage-2.2 ? The issue that I have with you argument is that |
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> you encourage breaking user apps at build time instead of |
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> leaving the user some time to run revdep-rebuild or any other |
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> tool needed when user wishes so. |
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This is different from preserve-libs because FEATURES="-preserve-libs" |
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doesn't stop these calls from keeping old libraries around. Also, once |
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preserve-libs has been used, a normal revdev-rebuild won't spot these |
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issues, and cruft-checkers can't find them because they're classed as |
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part of the new package. |
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I understand we have users who want this feature, and also that we |
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advise everybody to read through every single elog message ever made. |
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Having said that, I personally know how to run revdep-rebuild, and I do |
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it often so that when I'm upgrading 100+ packages in one go, I don't |
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then have to sit around reading through every elog message to make sure |
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that a library I didn't ask for doesn't accidentally get left on my |
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system for all time. |
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I can live with this for in places where it causes massive breakage |
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(openssl/libpng/libjpg), because it's genuinely useful, but I think it |
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should be restricted to such important packages, or at least disabled by |
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FEATURES="-preserve-libs". |
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Ideally, these calls should either adhere to FEATURES="-preserve-libs", |
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or there should be a tool that can identify which files portage has |
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preserved, and allow easy rebuilding of dependent packages, and removal. |
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At the moment, I'm having to manually grep ebuilds, ls the libraries |
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and run revdep-rebuild over them one at a time... |
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Mike 5:) |
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