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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:43:54
Message-Id: bfe914e1-dbf4-b926-94b7-befc0dd95f34@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 2018-01-22 05:28 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Montag, 22. Januar 2018, 08:01:08 CET schrieb Zac Medico:
3 >>
4 >> According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need to be
5 >> accompanied by a revision bump in order to trigger rebuilds for users.
6 >> Therefore, you should only need to use --changed-deps=y for a single
7 >> deep @world update. After that, if you encounter installed packages with
8 >> outdated dependencies in a future deep @world update, then you should
9 >> report it as a bug.
10 >
11 > Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated dependency
12 > changes then?
13 >
14 > I'd loathe to have to do identical revision bumps for, say, all perl-
15 > module.eclass consumers...
16 >
17
18 Based on what I'm seeing in perl-module.eclass now I don't think this
19 is an issue -- first, perl isn't slotted; second, perl doesn't specify
20 ${PV} information in the eclass. If it started to do either of these,
21 then yes revbumps are going to start being necessary..

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