[gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi Zac,

Zac Medico wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@×××.de>
> wrote:
>> The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary
>> with portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2
>> gets stable...
>
> Since portage-2.1.11.20 [1], you can do this:
>
>    echo 'FEATURES="${FEATURES} preserve-libs"' >> /etc/portage/make.conf
>
> [1]
> [http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/09/21/preserve-libs-available-in-portage-2-1/

That announcement slipped somehow my awareness. Indeed an upgrade of a 
different machine with preserve-libs added to FEATURES went fine. Still, I 
wonder what prevents portage-2.2 form going stable, I have one machine where 
I use that one for years without any flaws and a lot of benefits.

- Jörg