On Wed, 1 May 2013 17:28:02 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2013 16:22:47 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:18:50 -0700 > > Zac Medico wrote: > > > I know that this feature has been questioned by some, especially > > > by people involved with Paludis (which doesn't implement > > > preserve-libs). I think that the main compliant is that > > > preserve-libs doesn't preserve any non-library dependencies (such > > > as configuration files) that a library may depend on. > > > > ...and that it's utterly frickin' broken as a concept, and that > > adopting it will slow down people switching to the proper solution > > to the problem, which is slots. > > Convince the developers to split packages into proper parts, then we > can talk. Or even better, convince upstreams to split their packages. It's necessary, and the way to convince developers is to stop providing a nasty hack as a not-really-working alternative. -- Ciaran McCreesh