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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:29:33
Message-Id: 4FD0F2CE.9040102@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 06/07/2012 11:13 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:47:19 -0700
3 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
4 >> On 06/06/2012 11:12 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 >>> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:45:55 -0700
6 >>> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
7 >>>> Can you explain how Exherbo is handling dbus-glib rebuilds after
8 >>>> glib:2 updates?
9 >>>
10 >>> Badly, most likely.
11 >>
12 >> And, I suspect that they'd be handling with ABI_SLOT operator deps, if
13 >> they were available.
14 >
15 > Nope. They'd be handling it with something known as 'parts' (which is a
16 > way of removing a subset of an installed package's contents and turning
17 > off a subset of its option flags), plus SLOT and option dependencies.
18
19 That sounds nice. Maybe we can do that in EAPI 6.
20 --
21 Thanks,
22 Zac