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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:11:24
Message-Id: 20140727181108.589dede3@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps by Peter Stuge
1 On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:02:05 +0200
2 Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
5 > > > What would you do away with? Being able to virtualize packages
6 > > > without recompiling everything that depends on them?
7 > >
8 > > Well that's never worked properly or consistently to begin with
9 >
10 > Please answer the question?
11
12 That does answer the question: as can be seen from the udev virtual
13 example earlier in this thread, we do not have a way of reliably
14 avoiding recompilations. Thus it is wrong to pretend that we have this
15 feature now, or that fully static dependencies would somehow be to blame
16 for recompilations.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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