On Mar 31, 2012 12:57 PM, "Ciaran McCreesh" <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 > Alex Alexander <alex.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it > > should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable production > > boxes for years without any issues :) > > ...and here we see the problem. You think that "I haven't noticed it > break" means "it works". > > The problem with preserved-libs (and emerge --jobs, for that matter) is > that the design is "I can think of a few ways where it might break, so > I'll hard-code in special cases to handle those, but in general I > can't think of what other problems there are so it's fine". That's a > bad way of doing things. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh
No. I didn't say I think it works, I said I have proof it works. You can argue about the implementation details all you want and it'll still work. If you can make it better then, by all means, send a patch. Otherwise stop spreading false FUD, please. Thanks :) Alex | wired
