Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

[Pacho Ramos]

El mar, 22-07-2014 a las 07:39 +0000, Martin Vaeth escribió:
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions:
> > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...)
> > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the
> > installed files (for example, -r1.1)
>
> I made the same suggestion already on the corresponding bug
> 	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516612#c33
> without any response.

Just CCed :)

>
> It seems to me that this could avoid the problem of useless
> recompilation and would allow fine-graining of the issue by the
> ebuild maintainer (if not the maintainer of the ebuild, who else
> should be able to decide whether recompilation might be
> necessary to handle certain exceptions?)
> and simultaneously allow to revbump even on presumably
> tiny dependency changes.
>
> I still have not seen an argument against this idea.
>
> Of course, this would need an EAPI bump and could only be used
> for packages which are (or switch to(?)) this new EAPI, so a few
> (core) packages which should stay EAPI=0 for a long time
> are excluded from this for still quite a while.
> But apart from that few exceptions...?
>
>

Also, this could be a benefit in the long term if we need to spread any
changes to VDB in the future.