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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:23:17
Message-Id: 400510bf-a54b-e1ad-cb42-3e094b86bfde@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes by Jason Zaman
1 On 08/14/2017 08:01 AM, Jason Zaman wrote:
2 >
3 > I'll give an example where revbumps are significantly inferior to
4 > --changed-use.
5 >
6 > ... With --changed-use, only the people who need it (ie selinux
7 > users) will rebuild and everyone is happy (selinux users because the
8 > program now works and non-selinux users because they did not rebuild
9 > for no reason).
10
11 But this benefit exists only for Portage users, and can only be obtained
12 by throwing the others under the bus.
13
14 (If you change RDEPEND, you need to create a new revision anyway:
15 https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151011-summary.txt)

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes Jason Zaman <jason@×××××××××.com>