On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:13:09 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > That seems to be discussing ABI changes. The X drivers situation is > > different. Also, that issue has largely been resolved, in as much as > > ABI changes don't break things like they used to, with > > @preserved-rebuild.
> Huh? @preserved-rebuild largely prevents ABI changes breaking the system by keeping old libraries around until packages have been rebuilt. It's the other way round since the depending packages are affected, whereas here it is the dependencies. > If implemented, that would allow > FORCEREBUILD=x11-drivers/xf86-input* on major Xorg upgrades. Or even @x11-module-rebuild -- Neil Bothwick Got kleptomania? Be sure to take something for it.
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