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On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:54, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Yes, I agree with you. For example, take expat. The maintainers have |
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> refused to allow both versions to exist simultaneously on a system |
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> because it apparently causes more breakage than just breaking every app |
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> on your system by removing .so.0. |
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that is the exact case portage should be handling for you |
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it would go "oh hey, check out libexpat.so.0 ... some things seem to want |
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it ... HEY USER, you need to rebuild: xxxxxxxx" ... once all the packages |
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still consuming libexpat.so.0 are rebuilt, portage could silently trim it |
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from the system |
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complicated ? not really, scanelf can produce all this information in an |
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easily digestable format |
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-mike |
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