Peter Stuge wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: > > icu. The ebuild happily removes any trace of the old shared libs > > with the result that half of the stuff that is *required* to build > > kdelibs is now broken. The build aborts and leaves behind a broken > > system. And this happened now not for the first time!
Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > If you don't want that to happen, use package sets and exclusion. > > > > Wait - using default settings results in emerge leaving a broken > > system, and your response is "take non-default actions to avoid > > that" ? > > "in one run", I see no mention of "broken" in what I quoted here; > don't pull it out of its context, it was just a suggestion. The way I understood Jörg was that the greater context is that files needed in later steps of an emerge were removed by earlier steps. Even if this doesn't happen very regularly I think it's a problem that it can happen at all. I guess the solution is known, but not there yet? //Peter
