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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:56:22
Message-Id: 22007.13418.211231.470186@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage. by hasufell
1 >>>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, hasufell wrote:
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3 >> (Unless someone insists on a revision bump for each dependency
4 >> modification
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6 > Yes, because everything else will cause a mess.
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8 Fortunately, for autotools.eclass it is a pure build-time dependency
9 whose updating doesn't need any revbump. This leaves us with one
10 single package with runtime dependencies.
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12 Ulrich