Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-07-27, o godz. 16:05:34
""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> napisał(a):

> On 7/21/14, 11:52 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> > Michał has documented the shortcomings of dynamic deps in our wiki[0].
> > (Thank you!) [...]
> > [0]  <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Dynamic_dependencies>
>
> There's one more thing I'd like to ask about:
>
> For "Minor linking change w/ dependency change (unnecessary linking
> removed)" the "dynamic deps" cell is red with "revbump + mostly
> unnecessary rebuild", and "static deps" says "applied after rebuild".
>
> Arguably with dynamic deps one could also skip the revbump, and the
> update would similarly be applied after rebuild.

No, the update would be applied immediately. In other words, emerge
will remove the dependency and allow it to be depcleaned even though
the package still links to it. You need to revbump to avoid the broken
linkage.


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Best regards,
Michał Górny