On 29 Sep 2015 19:54, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:21:14 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > if your package depended on binutils because you wanted to link against > > libbfd or libopcodes, or you omitted the dep entirely (because you didn't > > notice?), there's a new package you should convert to using: > > sys-libs/binutils-libs > > > > this supports subslots & multilib and is sane to depend on unlike binutils > > where you can have multiple versions installed or active versions selected. > > What about stable packages? Since binutils-2.25.1-r1 is stable, > binutils-libs-2.25.1 should be stabilized as well and I have a > package which needs this (dev-util/oprofile).
there's no real reason to accelerate stabilization. stable binutils (well binutils-config to be exact) continues to provide the libs/headers and will do so until everything is ready to go stable. -mike
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