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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:21:53
Message-Id: 20140721222142.028a7657@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps by Jeroen Roovers
1 On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:15:41 +0200
2 Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:06:07 +0200
4 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
5 > > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions:
6 > > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...)
7 > > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the
8 > > installed files (for example, -r1.1)
9 >
10 > Or the package manager looks at changed in *DEPEND between the repo
11 > and vdb and resolves those.
12
13 ...assuming that the ebuild hasn't been removed, and that it can be
14 associated correctly when overlays are involved, and that the change
15 wasn't a change where a saved pkg_prerm uses the old dependency, not
16 the new one, or all the other ways this breaks.
17
18 You need to think your cunning plan the whole way through.
19
20 --
21 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>