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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:00:01
Message-Id: 1516640375.1256.11.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 W dniu pon, 22.01.2018 o godzinie 11∶28 +0100, użytkownik Andreas K.
2 Huettel napisał:
3 > Am Montag, 22. Januar 2018, 08:01:08 CET schrieb Zac Medico:
4 > >
5 > > According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need to be
6 > > accompanied by a revision bump in order to trigger rebuilds for users.
7 > > Therefore, you should only need to use --changed-deps=y for a single
8 > > deep @world update. After that, if you encounter installed packages with
9 > > outdated dependencies in a future deep @world update, then you should
10 > > report it as a bug.
11 >
12 > Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated dependency
13 > changes then?
14 >
15 > I'd loathe to have to do identical revision bumps for, say, all perl-
16 > module.eclass consumers...
17 >
18
19 I think one of the reasons for the policy back then was to actually stop
20 people from creating horribly broken monstrosities of eclasses.
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny