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On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:42:23 +0300 |
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Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
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> Revision bumping for dependency change that doesn't cause the |
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> package's file content |
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> to change doesn't make sense; triggers useless rebuilds for users. |
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A merged ebuild that misses a dependency needs an useless extra emerge. |
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Think about the triggers instead of the extra rebuilds or extra emerges. |
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> Portage is the official package manager, and has dynamic deps enabled |
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> by default. |
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Is it a feature or is it a hack? |
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> And it's already in ebuild-quiz.txt to ensure knowing when to, or not |
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> to, revbump: |
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> *** Ebuild technical/policy questions |
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> 1. You change a package's ebuild to install an init script. |
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> Previously, the package had no init script at all. |
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> Is a revision bump necessary? Why? What about when adding a |
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> patch? |
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That's not about dynamic dependencies; but yes, too much rev bumps. |
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> So, -1, useless rebuilds is one of the biggest problems lately, it's |
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> an relatively new problem, |
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> people are revbumping packages for the simplest things like EAPI4->5 |
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Useless triggers are the problem; why are the rev bumps needed, why are |
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dependencies forgotten, ...? Sounds like a developer work flow issue... |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499852 |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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