Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: extending pkgmove (slotmove) actions to apply transitionally to ebuilds

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Michał Górny wrote:

> Dnia 2015-04-04, o godz. 21:36:37
> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> napisał(a):

>> But in the worst case, your "hack" can cause a broken dependency
>> graph. On the one hand, above mentioned >=app-misc/foo-1:0 matches
>> all versions affected by the slotmove, so it should be converted.
>> On the other hand, it is a perfectly valid dependency specification
>> which could have been added after the slotmove, in which case it
>> shouldn't be converted. You cannot know here what the intentions of
>> the developer are.

> But it *will* be converted in vdb the next time updates are applied.

IIUC, dependencies in the VDB will only be converted if the target of
the slotmove is installed on the user's system?

Ulrich