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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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-mike |