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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:45:24
Message-Id: 20180122164513.421c9390@snowtea
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:28:21 +0100
2 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
3 > Am Montag, 22. Januar 2018, 08:01:08 CET schrieb Zac Medico:
4 > > According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need
5 > > to be accompanied by a revision bump in order to trigger rebuilds
6 > > for users. Therefore, you should only need to use --changed-deps=y
7 > > for a single deep @world update. After that, if you encounter
8 > > installed packages with outdated dependencies in a future deep
9 > > @world update, then you should report it as a bug.
10 >
11 > Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated
12 > dependency changes then?
13 >
14 > I'd loathe to have to do identical revision bumps for, say, all perl-
15 > module.eclass consumers...
16
17 perl-cleaner is rather strong evidence that the Perl situation needs a
18 major change anyway...
19
20 --
21 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>