On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:09:45 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On 12/18/2012 11:58 PM, Duncan wrote: > >> I didn't know that. Last I knew, stable portage had special-case > >> acceptance of @system and @world to prepare the way, but I hadn't > >> seen that full /etc/portage/sets/* and /var/lib/portage/world_sets > >> support was stabilized. > >> > >> If indeed it is as you say, I've even more to rejoice about! =:^) > > > > Yeah, it's only been in stable for a few months now, so lots of > > people aren't aware of it yet. > > > > The current list available in portage-2.1.10.x, reported by emerge > > --list-sets is: > > > > preserved-rebuild > > If @preserved-rebuild and the corresponding FEATURES=preserve-libs are > now stable, we should create a news item about this. > > Otherwise people will still be running revdep-rebuild a decade from > now, as this feature was never formally announced as far as I'm aware, > and all the mentions of it were ages ago and not available to stable > users at the time.
We really shouldn't... EAPI 5 is the way to go, not preserve-libs. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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