Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:34:59
Message-Id: 20080529193033.cb27c506.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default? by Mike Auty
1 On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:28:16 +0100
2 Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
5 > Hash: SHA1
6 >
7 > Marius Mauch wrote:
8 > | The purpose of this is to keep the system operational after library
9 > | upgrades until all affected packages could be rebuilt and to
10 > | simplify the process, not to avoid the rebuilds.
11 >
12 > I couldn't find it mentioned in your email, but if portage is
13 > effectively doing reference counts, what happens when its reference
14 > count gets to 0? Once no ebuilds rely on the old library is it
15 > removed automatically, or do the "you need to rebuild these" message
16 > just go away?
17
18 They are removed automatically.
19
20 Marius
21 --
22 gentoo-dev@l.g.o mailing list