[gentoo-user] Re: prelink Gentoo docs confusing

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/15/2009 02:59 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 18:27 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml is says:
>>
>>     You do not need to set FEATURES="prelink" in your make.conf
>>     file; Portage will automatically support prelink if it can
>>     find the prelink binary.
>>
>> Does that mean there's a way portage will call prelink on its own when
>> it finds it?  Well, it doesn't here.  I still have to manually prelink
>> or have a cron job.
>
> I've always wondered this too, so I decided to test it:
>
> * Put "prelink" in my FEATURES in make.conf
> [...]
>
> So it appears that it *is* running it on its own.

But the docs I quotes say "You do not need to set FEATURES="prelink" in 
your make.conf."