Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:25:15
Message-Id: 20140721232516.3ec06098@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Dnia 2014-07-21, o godz. 22:21:42
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> napisał(a):
3
4 > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:15:41 +0200
5 > Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
6 > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:06:07 +0200
7 > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
8 > > > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions:
9 > > > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...)
10 > > > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the
11 > > > installed files (for example, -r1.1)
12 > >
13 > > Or the package manager looks at changed in *DEPEND between the repo
14 > > and vdb and resolves those.
15 >
16 > ...assuming that the ebuild hasn't been removed, and that it can be
17 > associated correctly when overlays are involved, and that the change
18 > wasn't a change where a saved pkg_prerm uses the old dependency, not
19 > the new one, or all the other ways this breaks.
20
21 You forgot about slot operators.
22
23 The funny thing is, almost none of the Gentoo developers even know that
24 slot operators disable dynamic dependencies completely in portage.
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny

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