Here's a revised version based on feedback. I've included a link to a
wiki page about preserve-libs, where we can add answers to all of the
questions that may arise:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Preserve-libs
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Thanks,
Zac
Title: Portage preserve-libs default
Author: Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org>
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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. Even though preserve-libs makes it unnecessary to
use revdep-rebuild for most common updates, it is still a good practice
to run `revdep-rebuild -ip` after updates, in order to check if there
are any broken library dependencies that preserve-libs was not able to
handle. For example, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459038.
If you would like to disable preserve-libs by default, then set
FEATURES="-preserve-libs" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man page
or the following wiki page for more information:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Preserve-libs
