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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Thoughts about broken package handling
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:45:31
Message-Id: 874o3busu7.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Thoughts about broken package handling by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> writes:
2
3 > The fix for that is to slot things properly. You're screwed anyway if a
4 > preserved library tries to access installed data that has either been
5 > removed or upgraded to a new format that it doesn't recognise.
6
7 Or some "awkward" packages which when rebuilt will still link against
8 the preserved library, but if the preserved library is deleted and the
9 package manually rebuild will link against the new one.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Thoughts about broken package handling Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>