I've recently stumbled upon several packages unnecessarily using old preserve_old_lib feature from eutils.eclass, namely:
libgnomekbd libproxy And then users hit issues like this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326517#c5 Please only use the preserve_old_lib function in case of breaking: - base-system - toolchain - or the library is so widely used that revdep-rebuilding the system would be nearly impossible without having the old lib around since revdep-rebuild (emerge) can't get the emerge ordering right (because of overlinking and lack of asneeded by default, namely jpeg and png comes into mind) It's a hack, not a solution Thanks
