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On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 10:15 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> However, it's been a long-standing general practise that if there are |
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> no deps in the tree older than what is necessary for a package, that |
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> package doesn't need to have a minimum version on the dependency atom. |
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> As such, issues similar to this are probably lying in wait all other |
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> the place in the tree. |
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this is a common misconception: ebuilds must have min. deps matching |
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their requirements (exactly because of this problem) |
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it can be fixed on the user side by 'emerge -uDN world' meanwhile but |
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this doesn't mean the ebuild doesn't have a bug, even if minor |
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Alexis. |
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