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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:59:00
Message-Id: 6b13566e-611a-abf9-8b70-6d18f33b5c42@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 01/22/2018 02:28 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 outdated dependencies in a future deep @world update, then you should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 Would it be possible to isolate the dependency changes in virtual
18 ebuilds? If the eclass depends on a virtual, the maybe updating to the
19 latest version of the virtual can serve as the means apply the needed
20 dependency change?
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Zac

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