Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?

2008-05-28 Thread Rémi Cardona
Marius Mauch a écrit : So, do you think it should be enabled by default? Does portage have a way to report which libraries it is keeping around because of preserve-libs ? If there's an easy way to figure that out, then enabling it by default is a very sane and sound idea. Cheers, Rémi -- g

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?

2008-05-28 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 01:13 Thu 29 May , Marius Mauch wrote: > One concern raised by some people is that it might cause old libraries > with security issues to stay on the system for eternity even though > the package was upgraded, and eventually be preferred by new builds. > I can't rule this out completely but

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?

2008-05-28 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 29 May 2008 01:13:16 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, do you think it should be enabled by default? Yes please. :) I haven't had any problems in the couple of months i've been using it. -- fonts, gcc-porting, by design, by neglect mips,

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?

2008-05-28 Thread Marius Mauch
As portage-2.2 is about to be unmasked into ~arch soon (there is one weird bug to solve before) it's time to ask for some input on one of the important new features, FEATURES=preserve-libs. (if you're already familiar with it you can skip this paragraph) Simply said, when this feature is enabled p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2008-05-28 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:03:33AM +0200, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > * net-im/jabberd & net-im/jabberd2 - thanks to work from Marko Durkovic > both are easy to maintain I can take jabberd(maybe jabberd2 too) by proxy, until I finish my quizzes. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2008-05-28 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
There are few packages that could use some more loving: * app-editors/scite - easy to maintain, has only one bug open wrt French locales & UTF-8 * media-video/griffith - also easy, pending version bump * net-im/jabberd & net-im/jabberd2 - thanks to work from Marko Durkovic both are easy to