On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:35 +0000, Graham Murray wrote:

> The difference is that with the new @preserved-rebuild the 'old' library
> is not deleted until all of the dependent packages have been
> successfully rebuilt to use the 'new' library.

This also means that if you don't run emerge @preserved-rebuild, the old
libraries will still be hanging around, and revdep-rebuild won't rebuild
affected packages because the libraries they link against are still
there. revdep-rebuild depends on packages being broken to rebuild them.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

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