On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 21:12, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:07:29PM -0600, Tod M. Neidt wrote:
> 
> > Philosophical question, can something similar to glibc-2.2.4-r6 be done
> > when merging other libraries, i.e. X, gnome or kde?
> 
> Yes, in fact, it should all work now automagically.  The problem with glibc
> 2.2.4-r5 is that I thought it would work automagically with glibc too, but
> it still needed some help.  All "normal" libraries can now be upgraded in-
> place, safely.  This is with Portage 1.7.8+.
> 

Hi

Just a question to satisfy my curiosity.  How does this work?
Does portage now keep a copy of the old libs?  And if so,
isnt things going to get cluttered ?


Thanks

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa