On Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2008, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > on 07/19/2008 02:28 AM Volker Armin Hemmann said the following: > > On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> revdep-rebuild now runs amazingly fast on my machine - 18 seconds as > >> opposed to the 5 minutes or so it used to take ! > >> > >> I see gentoolkit was updated recently. Is this expected behaviour? > > > > or you are a victim of that new preserved-libs stuff in portage .... > > s/victim/beneficiary/ > > "That preserved-lib stuff" has worked just fine for me. It's useful to > know what needs to be rebuilt, then to be able to rebuild just those > packages.
a friend of mine was fucked by this stuff when he did an emerge -e world after gcc update.