Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-05-14

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> ...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.

Unless we fully slot (not subslot) every version of everything that
gets linked there is still the issue of what happens between the time
package A is upgraded, and package B which depends on A is upgraded.
That will often be minutes, and could be hours or days even with slot
operator dependencies.  Some packages take a long time to build, and
if there is a failure it might take a user days to work it out.

Even if preserve-libs is imperfect, it improves usability.  Are there
any scenarios where it actually makes things worse?  Sure, maybe once
in a blue moon a lib no longer works because it is out of sync with a
config file, but would it work any better if it were just outright
deleted?

Rich