W dniu czw, 04.01.2018 o godzinie 19∶22 +0100, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
napisał:
> > > > > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:23 AM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> 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.
> 
> There may also be Portage users without preserve-libs in FEATURES.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think that this would fly. You'd have to split packages like
> xz-utils which install binaries, otherwise there would be collisions
> between slots.
> 

See: sys-libs/ncurses, except for the random in-place 5->0 SLOT change
that caused a lot of mayhem.


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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