On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > While I agree that SLOT's are not perfect, they were created to solve > > this problem too. If another working solution is found, that is ok > > for me too. But I don't want to just find my binary stops working > > because some of its libraries were removed from under it. Those > > libraries can coexist, so we should keep them to give users an > > opportunity to upgrade their applications to the new one. Only at > > that point do they become inappropriate. > > so you preserve the lib with the preserve_old_lib* functions in > eutils.eclass
While this also does not stand any chance to win a beauty contest, this would also be acceptable to me. The only thing I want is things not starting to fail without a good reason. A new version of a library is on itself not a good enough reason. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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