On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:23 AM, Pacho Ramos <[email protected]> wrote: > I have seen this is only used by: > app-arch/xz-utils > dev-libs/gmp > dev-libs/libpcre > dev-libs/mpc > dev-libs/mpfr > net-nds/openldap > sys-libs/gdbm > sys-libs/ncurses > sys-libs/readline > sys-process/audit > > Maybe we could deprecate it and try to drop it in the future :/ >
As Soap touched on earlier, this should probably not be deprecated/removed until a solution compatible with Paludis and pkgcore is implemented. A couple of options for that: 1. Add functionality similar to preserve-libs to these alternate package managers. This is unlikely to happen. 2. Slot the libraries so that the old versions may remain installed in a PMS-compatible way. This is often a pain to actually implement. If neither of these things happens, keeping the preserve_old_lib calls in place is an ugly, but workable solution.
