sorry for the format, this was Sent from my iPhone
On 2012-12-20, at 4:51 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:09:45 -0500 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >>> On 12/18/2012 11:58 PM, Duncan wrote: >>>> I didn't know that. Last I knew, stable portage had special-case >>>> acceptance of @system and @world to prepare the way, but I hadn't >>>> seen that full /etc/portage/sets/* and /var/lib/portage/world_sets >>>> support was stabilized. >>>> >>>> If indeed it is as you say, I've even more to rejoice about! =:^) >>> >>> Yeah, it's only been in stable for a few months now, so lots of >>> people aren't aware of it yet. >>> >>> The current list available in portage-2.1.10.x, reported by emerge >>> --list-sets is: >>> >>> preserved-rebuild >> >> If @preserved-rebuild and the corresponding FEATURES=preserve-libs are >> now stable, we should create a news item about this. >> >> Otherwise people will still be running revdep-rebuild a decade from >> now, as this feature was never formally announced as far as I'm aware, >> and all the mentions of it were ages ago and not available to stable >> users at the time. > > We really shouldn't... EAPI 5 is the way to go, not preserve-libs. > preserved-libs complements EAPI5, it should not disappear.
