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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:38:43
Message-Id: CAKmKYaA4-BAYRPnZr3NYEnrpjjPUUfyZFNvJ+-r75UVFXvNyEw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
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3 > According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need to be
4 > accompanied by a revision bump in order to trigger rebuilds for users.
5 > Therefore, you should only need to use --changed-deps=y for a single
6 > deep @world update. After that, if you encounter installed packages with
7 > outdated dependencies in a future deep @world update, then you should
8 > report it as a bug.
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11 Can we get repoman to warn about changing dependencies without revbumps?
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13 Cheers,
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15 Dirkjan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>