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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Does anyone want|need a static (lib)perl still?
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:23:37
Message-Id: 1137579591.13484.15.camel@sys947.dtic.mil
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Does anyone want|need a static (lib)perl still? by Joshua Baergen
1 On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:25 -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote:
2 > My point is that this isn't like the libstdc++ situation.
3 >
4 wasn't implying it was - different thread, different thought :)
5
6 > Many people have things dependent on Perl, but my impression is not that
7 > things would break, but rather that Perl would adhere to the rules of
8 > any other dynamically linked library, including breakage from certain
9 > upgrades.
10
11 heh - that would imply that when you currently upgrade perl's, there's
12 no breakage, which isn't true since libperl isn't slotted, so your old
13 libperl's are getting wiped anyway.
14
15 like i said in the original message, looking for opinions - this wasn't
16 something i was ready to commit or anything :)
17
18 ~mcummings

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