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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] binutils-libs: new package for binutils libs
From:       Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2015-09-29 20:42:06
Message-ID: 20150929204206.GG5374 () vapier ! lan
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On 29 Sep 2015 19:54, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:21:14 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > if your package depended on binutils because you wanted to link against
> > libbfd or libopcodes, or you omitted the dep entirely (because you didn't
> > notice?), there's a new package you should convert to using:
> > 	sys-libs/binutils-libs
> > 
> > this supports subslots & multilib and is sane to depend on unlike binutils
> > where you can have multiple versions installed or active versions selected.
> 
> What about stable packages? Since binutils-2.25.1-r1 is stable,
> binutils-libs-2.25.1 should be stabilized as well and I have a
> package which needs this (dev-util/oprofile).

there's no real reason to accelerate stabilization.  stable binutils (well
binutils-config to be exact) continues to provide the libs/headers and will
do so until everything is ready to go stable.
-mike

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