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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing new Prelinking Guide
From:       Stefan Jones <cretin () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2003-01-05 15:29:53
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On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 15:17, Bart Lauwers wrote:
>  I've been wondering about the impact on portage however. Will portage know to 
> unmerge these prelinked binaries still? My guess would be no.
> 

Well the answer is yes, the portage changes are already in and working,
test it if you want. Portage integration is seamless .

>  General remark: Prelinking definitely promises to be great but unless your 
> willing to deal with some 'early adoption' quirks it isn't for you yet. I've 
> broken my system once or twice severely trying to gauge it's state. I would 
> say that some challenges remain before it is ready for the masses.
> 

The problem is that I have never had a single problem with it on three
computers (one of which being a sparc ). I can only fix errors I can
replicate.

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Stefan Jones <cretin@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux


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