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

[Pacho Ramos]

El mié, 23-07-2014 a las 14:33 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:06:07 +0200
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions:
> > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...)
> > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the
> > installed files (for example, -r1.1)
> >
> > But I am not sure if it could be viable from a "technical" point of
> > view :(
>
> This in no way solves the problem. Consider the following course of
> events:
>
> User installs foo-1.1-r1
> Developer makes foo-1.1-r1.1
> foo-1.1* is removed from the tree
> User syncs
>

Isn't there a way for PMs to know that they need to not rebuild full if
user has 1.1-r1 *installed* in his system and pretends to update to
-r1.1?