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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:14, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> Not adding it into the ebuild means that it's impossible to show in |
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>> advance what packages will actually be installed, because you don't know |
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>> whether the sover will bump. |
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> sometimes you dont know as the ABI bump may be arch or feature specific ... |
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> pathological case i agree ;) |
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> you would certainly know between the time you merge the new one and unmerge |
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> the old one though ... but now we tread into the territory of "portage should |
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> not unmerge ABI libraries until all consumers have been destroyed" which is |
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> better than the current craptastic situation of "you gotta revdep-rebuild |
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> after the fact with a broken system" |
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Yes, I agree with you. For example, take expat. The maintainers have |
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refused to allow both versions to exist simultaneously on a system |
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because it apparently causes more breakage than just breaking every app |
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on your system by removing .so.0. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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