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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 02:30:49
Message-Id: 73314087-5fa1-d75f-8a2e-a74857026f9c@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On 12/02/2017 09:15 PM, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > the instruction of the news item about the swicth to profile 17 says
5 > that one needs to rebuild @world.
6 >
7 > Is this technically needed?
8
9 Yes, unless you were already using a hardened toolchain.
10
11
12 > Would it be possible to do this on base of the daily updates intead
13 > all in one go?
14
15 No, you'll get build failures trying to link new packages against old
16 libraries.
17
18 However, you can delay switching to the new profile for a while.

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