on 05/21/2012 09:52 PM Markos Chandras wrote the following:
>
> I believe the old library appears to be owned by the new version
> because it is "preserved". Once you run the revdep-rebuild command,
> everything should link to the new linker name and you should be safe
> to remove the old library. See the functions preserve_old_lib{_notify}
> in eutils eclass for more details and the "preserve-libs" option for
> the FEATURES variable in make.conf.
>
>
I don't see any "preserve-libs" option in the man page of make.conf.
Anyway, the bottom line is that equery may list an installed package as
owning a certain library file, when in reality that file belonged to an
older version of the package than the one installed, in which case it
may be or appear misleading.
