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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:53:15
Message-Id: 20180122105258.4bec0fab@red.yakaraplc.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:28:21 +0100
2 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Am Montag, 22. Januar 2018, 08:01:08 CET schrieb Zac Medico:
5 > >
6 > > According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need
7 > > to be accompanied by a revision bump in order to trigger rebuilds
8 > > for users. Therefore, you should only need to use --changed-deps=y
9 > > for a single deep @world update. After that, if you encounter
10 > > installed packages with outdated dependencies in a future deep
11 > > @world update, then you should report it as a bug.
12 >
13 > Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated
14 > dependency changes then?
15 >
16 > I'd loathe to have to do identical revision bumps for, say, all perl-
17 > module.eclass consumers...
18
19 Isn't there a rule about allowing existing dependency version bumps? I
20 can't remember exactly how it went. Something about subsets. ;)
21
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23 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
24 Gentoo Linux Developer