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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Over using preserve_old_lib, don't do that
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:03:31
Message-Id: cc1838fdad8640a4a5eec9a34dd95a6e@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Over using preserve_old_lib, don't do that by Mike Auty
1 On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:24:08 +0100, Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 > <snip a bunch of stuff>
4 > If portage offers a way to turn off functionality (like preserving
5 > libraries), it should actually turn it off, rather than sometimes turn
6 > it off...
7
8 Yes, you are referring to
9 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326275 I do believe this was
10 already mentioned in the thread. :)
11
12 On my build host, I have made preserve_old_lib() do nothing because I
13 expect my build host to always have the proper linking and it can
14 tolerate temp breakage as long as my client gets the proper packages in
15 the end.
16
17 -Jeremy