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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:23:45
Message-Id: 4F777512.5050402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance) by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 On 03/31/2012 10:52 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 Alex Alexander
6 > <alex.alexander@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >> @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO
8 >> it should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable
9 >> production boxes for years without any issues :)
10 >
11 > ...and here we see the problem. You think that "I haven't noticed
12 > it break" means "it works".
13 >
14 > The problem with preserved-libs (and emerge --jobs, for that
15 > matter) is that the design is "I can think of a few ways where it
16 > might break, so I'll hard-code in special cases to handle those,
17 > but in general I can't think of what other problems there are so
18 > it's fine". That's a bad way of doing things.
19 >
20 You are right, it does not work as good as it should but it's still
21 better than nothing ;) In any case, I am glad portage developers did
22 not backport this feature to 2.1.X portage releases as it is quite
23 fragile at the moment.
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25 - --
26 Regards,
27 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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