On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 08:44:45 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

> >>> preserved-rebuild should just take care of all this automagically.
> >>> Do you have preserve-libs in FEATURES?  
> 
> >> Nope... is this now recommended? Is it the default on new installs?  
> 
> > Yes it's the default for new installs and comes highly recommended
> > (unless you like having stuff not work at all till revdep-rebuild
> > completes...)
> >
> > There was a news item 2013-06-07:  
> 
> Interesting. Wonder how I missed that, or why my new install doesn't 
> have it enabled - or is it enabled somewhere other than in 
> /etc/portage/make.conf?

It's enabled in the profile, like most defaults. You can see whether it is
set by looking at the output from emerge --info.


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