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On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:50:14 -0400 |
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Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> We have a pull request for the devmanual that will update the revision |
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> documentation; namely, when to create a new one: |
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> https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/pull/67 |
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> The comments bring up an issue that I think can benefit from some |
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> hindsight. Specifically, the PR says that it's OK to change IUSE |
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> without creating a revision, because users can use --changed-use to |
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> catch it. My immediate objection to that was that --changed-use is |
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> specific to Portage, but let's reflect on the status quo. |
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The simple rule of thumb from way back when on revisions. If anything |
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on disk changes, then you should do a revision bump. |
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IUSE flag changes would in likely several ways change what is |
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installed. If nothing else the package database in /var/db/pkg would |
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change. Thus merits a revision bump. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |