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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:37:56
Message-Id: 53CEA03F.50401@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 22/07/14 20:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:03:16 +0200
3 > Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote:
4 >> As someone who regularly adds in dependencies without bumping (adding
5 >> USE=selinux dependencies to the proper SELinux policy) because that
6 >> would trigger lots of totally unnecessary rebuilds:
7 > Er... You do realise that doing that with dynamic dependencies leads to
8 > packages depending upon selinux that don't actually use selinux, right?
9 > Thus triggering lots of totally unnecessary rebuilds on an ABI change.
10 >
11
12 Err, I believe he meant adding RDEPEND -only USE="selinux" to pull in
13 eg. sec-policy/selinux-dante
14 from net-proxy/dante
15 So, how does that exactly make "packages depending upon selinux that
16 don't actually use selinux"
17 Doesn't make any sense
18
19 - Samuli