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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: hasufell@g.o, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] unnecessary revbump
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:44:32
Message-Id: 5613FA60.5000607@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] unnecessary revbump by William Hubbs
1 On 10/06/2015 06:33 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > I don't think the revbump of net-misc/openconnect-7.06-r1 to -r2 was
3 > necessary. When the change purely affects use flags, that is picked up
4 > by the pm and there is no need to force everyone to rebuild the package.
5
6 The same goes for dependency changes if the package manager has an
7 option like emerge --changed-deps. So, apparently the assumption is that
8 all relevant package managers implement behavior like emerge --newuse
9 and/or --changed-use, but they don't necessarily implement --changed-deps?
10 --
11 Thanks,
12 Zac

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] unnecessary revbump Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] unnecessary revbump Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>