On Thu, 2 May 2013 03:38:24 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> After some early issues with "too much magic" re preserved-libs

Why is it magic? It is well explained what it does (eg. man make.conf).

> I originally would rather let the upgrades happen as
> they always did and simply run revdep-rebuild afterward

You know that if you enable preserve-libs that you have to instead run
`emerge @preserved-rebuild`, which has a much shorter runtime.

> and preserved-libs interfered with that as the libs were still there
> so revdep-rebuild didn't find anything to rebuild.

`emerge @preserved-rebuild` will find and rebuild them.

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