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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] virtual/cargo: drop virtual
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:05:09
Message-Id: 20191027170502.GA19730@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] virtual/cargo: drop virtual by Kent Fredric
1 On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 08:36:47PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:55:11 -0500
3 > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Sure, but rebuild changes are exactly what you would want. that's how
6 > > software written in go gets rebuilt for example, which is exactly what
7 > > you want when go is upgraded.
8 > >
9 > > I agree that some rebuilds might be unnecessary, but if you don't like
10 > > compiling/building software Gentoo isn't for you.
11 > >
12 > > William
13 >
14 > I suspect the problem might be moreso that --with-bdeps=y makes portage
15 > prone to barf in this condition, not try recompiling.
16
17 No one has said there is a bug in portage in this situation, so I'd
18 rather not speculate until we have a bug report.
19
20 If a build dep of something changes, the correct response with
21 --with-bdeps=y is to rebuild everything that depends on the changed dep.
22
23 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/3] virtual/cargo: drop virtual Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>