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Hello, |
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Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. |
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Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on |
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dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus] |
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however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed to |
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dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus(+)] |
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without revbumping the transmission ebuild. [0] |
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Portage fails to notice this when resolving dependencies if the package was |
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installed prior to the change, resulting in errors like the following: |
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(dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts |
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with dev-qt/qtgui:4/4=[dbus] required by |
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(net-p2p/transmission-2.80::gentoo, installed) |
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which, I imagine, could be very frustrating for a user who doesn't mess |
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with the internals of Gentoo often. |
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You might think that such a revbump is overkill, but in reality the user will |
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have to re-emerge the package anyway in order to get rid of the error, so there |
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is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles these |
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changes. |
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[0] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 |
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Thanks, |
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Alex Alexander | wired@gentoo |
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