Please review the attached news item which announces the preserve-libs
default for portage-2.1.12. Note that our council has discussed this
change in their 2013-05-14 meeting [1], and they were in favor of
allowing it.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2448/focus=2452
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Thanks,
Zac
Title: Portage preserve-libs default
Author: Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2012-06-07
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.12
Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.12, FEATURES=preserve-libs is enabled by
default. This feature will preserve libraries when the sonames change during
upgrade or downgrade. Libraries are preserved only if consumers of those
libraries are detected. Preserved libraries are automatically removed when
there are no remaining consumers. Run `emerge @preserved-rebuild` in order to
rebuild all consumers of preserved libraries.
If you would like to disable this behavior by default, then set
FEATURES="-preserve-libs" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man page for more
information about this feature.
