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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng 1.6 upgrade and subslotting (and misuse of subslotting when there is also normal slotting)
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:09:19
Message-Id: 20130406170909.38501493@portable
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] libpng 1.6 upgrade and subslotting (and misuse of subslotting when there is also normal slotting) by Mike Gilbert
1 On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 11:02:14 -0400
2 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
5 > wrote:
6 > > On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:18:22 -0400
7 > > Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
8 > >
9 > >>
10 > >> Revbump -- very important in this case, as the slot-operator dep
11 > >> (iirc) does not take effect to allow sub-slot-triggered until
12 > >> after a version with the slot-operator has been emerged.
13 > >>
14 > >> So we want users to re-emerge packages either at the same time
15 > >> libpng-1.6 hits the tree, or beforehand so that they will be
16 > >> triggered for rebuild when libpng-1.6 hits.
17 > >>
18 > >
19 > >
20 > > so we force two rebuilds instead of one ?
21 > >
22 >
23 > Well, ideally you would do it in conjunction with a version bump
24 > rather than a revbump.
25 >
26 > But failing that, a revbump for an EAPI + dependency change seems like
27 > the safest option.
28 >
29
30 or: we can do the conversion in place, tell people to
31 @preserve-rebuild / revdep-rebuild and get the benefits next time :)

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