On Wednesday 06 June 2012 14:06:47 Pacho Ramos wrote: > The problem is that grep keeps linked against libpcre and it can cause > problems like pointed in referred bug report, and it's really risky as > people can have their portage completely broken for example when libpcre > is downgraded for some reason. That doesn't sound like a good *default* > behavior for me
there are plenty of core tools that can be broken by other packages forcing broken behavior like library downgrades. and FEATURES=preserve-libs would gracefully handle this. off the top of my head, lib dependencies that can bring a system down: - bash links against ncurses & readline - sed links against acl - coreutils links against acl/libcap/selinux/gmp - grep links against pcre (with at least USE=acl being a profile default) so highlighting the grep/pcre dep doesn't seem like it accomplishes much -mike
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