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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] binutils-libs: new package for binutils libs
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:54:58
Message-Id: 20150929195429.2e4b0e149a26e19793c69ed8@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] binutils-libs: new package for binutils libs by Mike Frysinger
1 Hi,
2
3 On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:21:14 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > if your package depended on binutils because you wanted to link against
5 > libbfd or libopcodes, or you omitted the dep entirely (because you didn't
6 > notice?), there's a new package you should convert to using:
7 > sys-libs/binutils-libs
8 >
9 > this supports subslots & multilib and is sane to depend on unlike binutils
10 > where you can have multiple versions installed or active versions selected.
11 > -mike
12
13 What about stable packages? Since binutils-2.25.1-r1 is stable,
14 binutils-libs-2.25.1 should be stabilized as well and I have a
15 package which needs this (dev-util/oprofile).
16
17 Best regards,
18 Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-dev] binutils-libs: new package for binutils libs Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>