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).

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