On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:56:18AM +0100, Klavs Klavsen wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just wrote a GLEP, proposing a solution to the problem that updating > f.ex. openssl, requires recompiling almost world > (kde,mozilla,galeon,wget,irrsi,python etc.) - and breaks your system if > you don't complete all this, while you are running (since the old > openssl files are removed after the openssl upgrade -and programs that > haven't been recompiled will break). > > You can see it here: > http://vsen.dk/files/GLEP-Making_updates_never_break_dependencies.txt > > I hope you like the idea, and the proposed solution. Please comment if > you have any questions, as I would very much like to see this happen, so > I can run emerge -u world again :) >
Is OpenSSL broken? The OpenSSL ebuild installs 0.9.6 libs for compatibility to prevent breakage (if 0.9.6 was installed previously). -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
