Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

[Alin Nastac]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i think you're merging the two issues you brought up ... there is binary ABI
> issues (which should not require a new DEPEND variable as portage can extract
> that information out at runtime) and there is runtime plugin issues with
> packages using dlopen() (which portage cannot extract as the dependency
> cannot ever be extracted)
>
Okay, maybe I hijacked BINCOMPAT purpose. As I said in a previous reply,
my original message was about runtime compatibility, not compilation
compatibility.
I want to be able to save in a package metadata that it was build using
some version (as in compatibility version, not necessarily PV) of
another package and I want emerge to automatically rebuild my package
whenever this version is changed.