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

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-07-21, o godz. 23:06:07
Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> napisał(a):

> El lun, 21-07-2014 a las 20:55 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
> > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:53:04 +0200
> > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
> > > Revision must be bumped when the on-disk files installed by the
> > > ebuild are changed.
> > > Nothing about dependencies.
> > >
> > > This has been policy for a LONG time, and we're not going to change
> > > it overnight just because you protest.
> >
> > Policy used to be that you'd do a revbump when you wanted users to
> > reinstall stuff, and you wouldn't otherwise. The only complication is
> > that sometimes you want users to reinstall stuff so that there's
> > accurate dependency information available, rather than because
> > something has changed.
> >
>
> 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)
>
> But I am not sure if it could be viable from a "technical" point of
> view :(

I'm afraid it couldn't. The major problem is not knowing *when* to
migrate metadata, portage usually gets that right. The problem is in
getting the correct output which is often near to impossible.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny