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On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:01:08 -0800 |
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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> Please review. |
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> Title: Portage Dynamic Deps |
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> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> |
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> Posted: 2018-01-28 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: <sys-apps/portage-2.3.20 |
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> Beginning with Portage 2.3.20, the previous default --dynamic-deps=y |
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> setting has changed to --dynamic-deps=n. Due to this change, some |
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> users may experience emerge dependency calculation failures triggered |
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> by installed packages that have outdated dependencies. In order to |
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> avoid problems of this nature, use the emerge --changed-deps=y option |
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> with your next deep @world update. |
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What's the rationale behind this ? |
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What I mean is: while '--dynamic-deps=n --changed-deps=n' is the |
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technically correct behavior, this just seems like throwing unbearable |
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dep calculation failure messages at users' faces while we could default |
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to '--dynamic-deps=n --changed-deps=y' and get the already |
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policy-mandated behavior of 'force a rebuild when you change deps'. |
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