On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:41:21PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> Please review the attached news item which announces the preserve-libs 
> default for portage-2.1.12. Note that our council has discussed this 
> change in their 2013-05-14 meeting [1], and they were in favor of 
> allowing it.
> 
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2448/focus=2452
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Zac

> Title: Portage preserve-libs default
> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2012-06-07
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.12
> 
> Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.12, FEATURES=preserve-libs is enabled by
> default. This feature will preserve libraries when the sonames change during
> upgrade or downgrade. Libraries are preserved only if consumers of those
> libraries are detected. Preserved libraries are automatically removed when
> there are no remaining consumers. Run `emerge @preserved-rebuild` in order to
> rebuild all consumers of preserved libraries.
> 
> If you would like to disable this behavior by default, then set
> FEATURES="-preserve-libs" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man page for more
> information about this feature.

Looks good. Perhaps you'd like to add that this replaces revdep-rebuild
in case it's not obvious to some users.

By the way: Whoooo hoooo xD
I almost believed this would never happen.

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