Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:53:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
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>> OK, so the programs aren't broken but in my case the libs aren't
>> rebuilding since the emerge step fails.
>
> It's the programs that need to be rebuilt, against the newer libraries.
>

OK, thanks. That makes sense as @preserved-rebuild wanted to emerge evolution.

>> What to do? Just sit and wait until someone updates something in
>> portage and eventually it gets cleaned up well enough to build?
>
> Or file a bug on b.g.o.

Seems I'm generally better off to wait a few days before I do that,
but it is an option.

>
>> If that is the basic answer then when do the old libs get removed?
>> When the @preserved-rebuild finally passes?
>
> That's how I understand it works.

Makes sense.

Thanks,
Mark
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