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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:38:47
Message-Id: 4FCD54C2.5030508@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Pacho Ramos
1 On 06/04/2012 02:29 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > - Looks like there is no consensus about what to do and, then, this
3 > could probably be implemented on eapi... 7? While former could probably
4 > be implemented much sooner (probably even in eapi5)
5
6 Ciaran has been advocating "SLOT operator" dependencies for this, but
7 those are not designed to work with unslotted packages, which leads to
8 the issues discussed in bug 414955:
9
10 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414955#c10
11 --
12 Thanks,
13 Zac