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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:17:07
Message-Id: 53CD7414.1020704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On 21/07/14 23:13, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 > On 21/07/14 04:06 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >
4 > > On 21/07/14 22:50, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > >> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:42:23 +0300 Samuli Suominen
6 > >> <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
7 > >>> people are revbumping packages for the simplest things like
8 > >>> EAPI4->5
9 > >> EAPI changing to 5 should always get a revbump, since it causes
10 > >> confusion if anyone has a USE dependency upon your package.
11 > >>
12 >
13 > > What kind of confusion? In my experience, Portage handles it
14 > > well
15 >
16 >
17 > Says the guy that's emerging things with --nodeps most of the time... :D
18 >
19 >
20 >
21
22 Portage's dependency calculation takes long time, but if you add useless
23 rebuilds of packages on top of that, that makes things even worse
24
25 (Yeah, I saw the ":D")