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On Friday, July 02, 2010 01:51:25 Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> I've recently stumbled upon several packages unnecessarily using old |
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> preserve_old_lib feature from eutils.eclass, namely: |
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> libgnomekbd |
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> libproxy |
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> And then users hit issues like this: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326517#c5 |
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> Please only use the preserve_old_lib function in case of breaking: |
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> - or the library is so widely used that revdep-rebuilding the system |
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> would be nearly impossible without having the old lib around since |
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> revdep-rebuild (emerge) can't get the emerge ordering right (because of |
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> overlinking and lack of asneeded by default, namely jpeg and png comes |
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> into mind) |
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i dont know how critical libgnomekbd is to the general running of GNOME, but |
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if all GNOME apps break because of it, then that is a valid use case. |
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upgrading a library that the whole desktop env cascades upon should not result |
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in the inability to log in (i.e. being forced to work in a Linux console shell |
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to recover things). |
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that bug report looks to me like the user not reading the output where they |
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have to delete the file themselves. |
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-mike |