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On 01/22/2018 02:28 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> Am Montag, 22. Januar 2018, 08:01:08 CET schrieb Zac Medico: |
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>> According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need to be |
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>> accompanied by a revision bump in order to trigger rebuilds for users. |
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>> Therefore, you should only need to use --changed-deps=y for a single |
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>> deep @world update. After that, if you encounter installed packages with |
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>> outdated dependencies in a future deep @world update, then you should |
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>> report it as a bug. |
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> Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated dependency |
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> changes then? |
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> I'd loathe to have to do identical revision bumps for, say, all perl- |
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> module.eclass consumers... |
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Would it be possible to isolate the dependency changes in virtual |
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ebuilds? If the eclass depends on a virtual, the maybe updating to the |
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latest version of the virtual can serve as the means apply the needed |
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dependency change? |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |