On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> The most annoying fact is, that none of this would have been necessary with
>> portage 2.2, but maybe we have to wait for 2.1.11.500 before 2.2 gets
>> stable...
>
> Since portage-2.1.11.20 [1], you can do this:
>
> echo 'FEATURES="${FEATURES} preserve-libs"' >> /etc/portage/make.conf
>
> [1]
> http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2012/09/21/preserve-libs-available-in-portage-2-1/
>
I think it is time to consider enabling this by default. Hopefully any
ABI bumps will be accompanied by a subslot / slot-operator migration
at this point.
