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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Happy 10th birthday (in advance)
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:59:20
Message-Id: 20120401175648.292ad3ed@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Happy 10th birthday (in advance) by Steven J Long
1 On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:04:11 +0100
2 Steven J Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > No, what I actually say is *why* things don't work, and if it hasn't
5 > > already been explained, I say how to fix it.
6 > Oh? Where on Earth did you do that in this thread? All you've said so
7 > far is that preserve-libs is "an awful hack that doesn't really work,
8 > is conceptually unsound and that breaks all kinds of things in subtle
9 > ways." No reasoning given whatsoever. Nor any indication of how to
10 > fix anything.
11
12 preserve-libs has been discussed to death previously and elsewhere. The
13 changes needed to implement it correctly were included in the original
14 EAPI 3, but were dropped due to lack of Portage implementation. There's
15 no need to repeat the whole discussion here.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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