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On Sun, 2018-01-21 at 20:24 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> In sys-app/portage-2.3.20, emerge now defaults to --dynamic-deps=n. |
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> This |
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> means that unless people explicitly set |
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> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--dynamic-deps=y" they're going to have to |
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> rebuild |
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> packages any time that the runtime dependencies of those packages |
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> need |
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> to be updated. It's possible to trigger these rebuilds using the |
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> emerge |
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> --changed-deps=y option. |
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> |
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> Some eclasses like autotools.eclass and vala.eclass generate |
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> version/slot locked dependencies that cause the dependencies of |
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> inheriting ebuilds to change when the versions in the eclasses are |
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> updated. If possible, it would be nice to avoid this version/slot |
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> locking. If not possible, then what should be do? |
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These are mostly build time only depends, why should the user now all |
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of a sudden care before an unrelated rebuild or upgrade, which would |
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actually matter only then, not before? |
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