From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:44:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110721174432.64e638c7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E285015.5060406@orlitzky.com>
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:13:09 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > That seems to be discussing ABI changes. The X drivers situation is
> > different. Also, that issue has largely been resolved, in as much as
> > ABI changes don't break things like they used to, with
> > @preserved-rebuild.
> Huh?
@preserved-rebuild largely prevents ABI changes breaking the system by
keeping old libraries around until packages have been rebuilt. It's the
other way round since the depending packages are affected, whereas here
it is the dependencies.
> If implemented, that would allow
> FORCEREBUILD=x11-drivers/xf86-input* on major Xorg upgrades.
Or even @x11-module-rebuild
--
Neil Bothwick
Got kleptomania? Be sure to take something for it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-21 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-20 2:50 [gentoo-user] evdev broken? Francisco Ares
2011-07-20 3:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-07-20 3:10 ` Francisco Ares
2011-07-20 3:38 ` Francisco Ares
2011-07-20 6:05 ` Mick
2011-07-20 6:20 ` Dale
2011-07-20 11:27 ` Francisco Ares
2011-07-20 12:03 ` Alex Schuster
2011-07-20 11:23 ` Francisco Ares
2011-07-20 14:16 ` Grant Edwards
2011-07-20 14:36 ` Mick
2011-07-20 16:36 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-20 19:01 ` Grant Edwards
2011-07-20 16:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-20 22:34 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-07-21 8:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-21 16:13 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-07-21 16:44 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-07-20 3:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Arthur Barlow
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