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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Subslots: should they be bumped like SONAME or on any ABI changes?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:10:33
Message-Id: lnhs4r$mf2$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Subslots: should they be bumped like SONAME or on any ABI changes? by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On 06/15/2014 02:05 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 > I vote that as primary policy/general practice, it only be bumped for
3 > (2) -- the primary purpose of subslot rebuilds is to allow portage to
4 > figure out the deptree order when a dependency upgrade is going to
5 > break a package that may or may not be emerged later. "break" is the
6 > key term here. If users want to re-emerge the rdeps of a package on
7 > upgrade they can certainly do so, but I don't see this as something we
8 > want to force on everybody just because we can...
9
10 I agree 100%.