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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 14:55:30
Message-Id: 51812CD3.60707@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: RANT: Upgrade icu and KDE at once by "Jörg Schaible"
1 On 05/01/2013 02:07 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
2 > Hi Zac,
3 >
4 > Zac Medico wrote:
5 >
6 >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@×××.de>
7 >> wrote:
8 >>> The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary
9 >>> with portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2
10 >>> gets stable...
11 >>
12 >> Since portage-2.1.11.20 [1], you can do this:
13 >>
14 >> echo 'FEATURES="${FEATURES} preserve-libs"' >> /etc/portage/make.conf
15 >>
16 >> [1]
17 >> [http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/09/21/preserve-libs-available-in-portage-2-1/
18 >
19 > That announcement slipped somehow my awareness. Indeed an upgrade of a
20 > different machine with preserve-libs added to FEATURES went fine. Still, I
21 > wonder what prevents portage-2.2 form going stable, I have one machine where
22 > I use that one for years without any flaws and a lot of benefits.
23
24 I think it's more useful to talk about specific features and their
25 readiness to be enabled by default in stable, rather then when
26 "everything in portage-2.2" should go stable. Which features in
27 portage-2.2 are you using that are ready for stable?
28
29 Not that the difference between portage-2.1 and portage-2.2 is just the
30 constants that you can see in this commit:
31
32 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=92ce3fcbf2c6d791151afc6edbbb18a530db12e2
33 --
34 Thanks,
35 Zac