From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SE5lx-00054G-JJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:23:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5575E1254; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D6AE1174 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so1110324wer.40 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:22:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MznymDYESW6KDFFFqi9qeCjA00m7cbNL17v/uWwP0+Y=; b=XFdMSW2ni8lXqzoaLL5aYnBtEVx0xvn6uaqrieBUHeyCFQa8dkPw6crKGUC+6l8gAM ++AZVo271m9FYBmcsKoR/PoVdLmPhxC8P5a8DfPycbzVyFTkCdyT83GvuMRX9sYvyy2W dg/EtQkB84QrMzJwBqUKsjmiKfroRYfxxIhaZK5s/cVkgeuEySW/Gj611Y14L6x5xSuW 83Zc38dGMj7mGTqw1r3zdKHK1mR2zUl1OTnWUmmWAE+vE2Yay+nByiOtOcJacwtePVxx 7WtyoyhL7OOoeAglDA80seiZibm+PbrpaBAkzHAxC8HmA8gpjnLcB/BhYzja25MWK9rz QK0Q== Received: by 10.180.89.130 with SMTP id bo2mr9444277wib.17.1333228965115; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.86] (93-97-149-234.zone5.bethere.co.uk. [93.97.149.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l5sm19413251wia.11.2012.03.31.14.22.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Message-ID: <4F777512.5050402@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:20:18 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance) References: <20120330150041.c3f7684c.axel@james-b.ch> <4F75B45F.2050108@gentoo.org> <4F76226B.1020507@gentoo.org> <4F762BCF.9010204@cs.stonybrook.edu> <20120331085622.5650ca62@googlemail.com> <20120331105253.4a00ebcc@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120331105253.4a00ebcc@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ac27a28c-bb64-47eb-8724-2ba52bf964b6 X-Archives-Hash: 4932c7f974b2da7f7d1dd0d846399b64 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 03/31/2012 10:52 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 Alex Alexander > wrote: >> @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO >> it should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable >> production boxes for years without any issues :) > > ...and here we see the problem. You think that "I haven't noticed > it break" means "it works". > > The problem with preserved-libs (and emerge --jobs, for that > matter) is that the design is "I can think of a few ways where it > might break, so I'll hard-code in special cases to handle those, > but in general I can't think of what other problems there are so > it's fine". That's a bad way of doing things. > You are right, it does not work as good as it should but it's still better than nothing ;) In any case, I am glad portage developers did not backport this feature to 2.1.X portage releases as it is quite fragile at the moment. - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJPd3USAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCeI0P/2YheKfgLeAYwU/0A9RRW/UK IXquEnUzYbYO8Y9YW8SH6V2+P3LZxye/HMJIEgv4Fy835cToVE7bUcxlizssdz5g KllHYGBitTsd3akThmO58G2gr8BqgO7u0CkArfy8N8ulLPUigrpkdoFxSOdhTlFz Qf2+VLhjGxN3iumAZYSG6Af+88W5P+HjhHiTCRU75M4PnL62/wCZHEBtbY7YUImS 0zsJo8fvYkCu0mqZQyguCfX5gi3elr2PQ/wSI72N2GhGsOHEw4KR3D/gDXmwFJw6 W/ymuWrmxUJtSjhFjwVxo5ZqYqiu35CSNlOA4nth6iiMNoNRsvDpIG3HploCzsBB Gf8EA3DYfIaSkihzm/uKFbaJ/kt3n6cm8Jv8dE5MGt4f263pgV3VbRY0gXMTesRF A+XotL46OmnR9oH35BfbtW59yz8oYaJLrhDJpa/8t0DSXGAOqWATdKsBr0klaIyz SOTASwZkAeVAeLZBGomVfSFlqb2yA2O+mQoRwG9aLhzEJkb0Quw/EnxF3PDiOgvH 9R2OfaczNO2DfZoa/P9bNzyzUfCQNyXh45sJztBzR2aMtvwDvSQfL5ro0L7BW/M6 O3XESHxy3xypSeAn9ZTfGnVp0taTmAW/xEo8NOqpH/jail1JZ2ywDqEGuA6q4qZ7 RLvexdxVoOd7NjoGIHhw =XsdD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----