On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Caleb Tennis wrote: > > > * - This version has a new soname, so it will require a > > > revdep-rebuild, which is probably why it hasn't been stabilized as > > > of now. > > > > so add a call to preserve_old_lib / preserve_old_lib_notify like > > should have been in there in the first place ... see latest readline > > ebuild for an example > > preserve_old_lib is a horrible hack that shouldn't be being used at all. > Don't push it as an alternative for proper slotting.
funny, i could say the same thing for your "proper slotting" SLOTing is for API changes, not ABI changes ABI tracking is the realm of the package manager and until portage has this integrated, the preserve_old_lib hack is the current solution -mike
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