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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:33:53
Message-Id: 1406381623.20388.46.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by Martin Vaeth
1 El sáb, 26-07-2014 a las 12:00 +0000, Martin Vaeth escribió:
2 [...]
3 > Probably there are many more examples than 1.-4, but I hope
4 > that the point becomes clear: Whenever packages split, merge,
5 > or can substitute each other, dependency changes are necessary,
6 > and rebuilds caused by these are unnecessary.
7 >
8 > Unfortunately, such things happen *very* frequently...
9 >
10 > Nobody is to blame for this; the PM just should be ready
11 > to deal with such situations without unnecessary rebuilds,
12 > be it by dynamic deps or by a mechanism to avoid
13 > recompilation.
14 >
15
16 I have also seen the need of add slots to DEPEND/RDEPEND due the
17 inclusion of an updated package like gstreamer:1.0/gtk+:3/libpng... or
18 needing to add forgotten USE deps (like package[introspection?] or
19 package[X]).