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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:36:44
Message-Id: 1406277393.20388.5.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps by Tom Wijsman
1 El mar, 22-07-2014 a las 23:56 +0200, Tom Wijsman escribió:
2 [...]
3 > Useless triggers are the problem; why are the rev bumps needed, why are
4 > dependencies forgotten, ...? Sounds like a developer work flow issue...
5 >
6 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499852
7 >
8
9 There are lots of cases of upstream forgetting to update configure
10 checks and changing without noticing the real requirements. For example,
11 moving from gtk+-2.90.0 to gtk+-3.3. Since we don't such old setups, we
12 don't notice a newer gtk+ is needed. Sometimes, a user with a really old
13 stable setup tries to update, find the problem and we need to update the
14 dependency