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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:01:45
Message-Id: 53CDB8C7.7040106@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps by William Hubbs
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4 On 07/21/2014 06:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > I'm picking a random msg to reply to.
6 >
7 > My concern about doing a revbump just because the deps change is that
8 > the new revision has to be committed in ~arch, so we then have to hit
9 > the arch teams, which we know are overworked anyway, with stable
10 > requests just because we changed the dependencies. Isn't that causing a
11 > lot of possibly unnecessary work for our arch teams?
12
13 If you edit an ebuild in place, and that ebuild has stable keywords, how
14 is that any different than revbumping it and keeping it with stable
15 keywords? The two are functionally identical, people get a changed
16 ebuild, and the arch teams do nothing. The only difference is that 1000
17 different ways dynamic deps are broken.
18
19 And just for fun, since no one has mentioned it yet, dynamic deps don't
20 work at all on binpkgs since the Packages file contains the deps (like
21 vardb) and it doesn't get updated (just like vardb).
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23 Revbump or make dynamic deps actually work (ha).
24
25 - -Zero
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Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>