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On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:41:21PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Please review the attached news item which announces the preserve-libs |
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> default for portage-2.1.12. Note that our council has discussed this |
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> change in their 2013-05-14 meeting [1], and they were in favor of |
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> allowing it. |
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> |
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> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2448/focus=2452 |
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> -- |
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> Thanks, |
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> Zac |
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> Title: Portage preserve-libs default |
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> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> |
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> Content-Type: text/plain |
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> Posted: 2012-06-07 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.12 |
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> |
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> Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.12, FEATURES=preserve-libs is enabled by |
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> default. This feature will preserve libraries when the sonames change during |
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> upgrade or downgrade. Libraries are preserved only if consumers of those |
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> libraries are detected. Preserved libraries are automatically removed when |
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> there are no remaining consumers. Run `emerge @preserved-rebuild` in order to |
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> rebuild all consumers of preserved libraries. |
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> |
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> If you would like to disable this behavior by default, then set |
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> FEATURES="-preserve-libs" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man page for more |
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> information about this feature. |
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Looks good. Perhaps you'd like to add that this replaces revdep-rebuild |
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in case it's not obvious to some users. |
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By the way: Whoooo hoooo xD |
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I almost believed this would never happen. |
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