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

[Martin Vaeth]

Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
> All people with enough knowledge already know that this is technically
> impossible.

We already discussed in the bug how it *would* be possible,
just nobody implements it:

Portage would have to use dynamic deps throughout,
using the data stored in /var/db only to find out
the correct information for := dependencies.

This would fix the behaviour except for some
corner cases concerning orphaned packages which
can lead to broken situations with any approach.

> This is not theoretical physics

Indeed, it just would just need a little programming.