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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:06:29
Message-Id: slrnlt7kf4.9i1.martin@epidot.math.uni-rostock.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Your solution fails spectacularly in the following ways:
3 >
4 > * Ebuild removal
5
6 Already discussed as to fail with static deps, too.
7
8 > * Overlays
9
10 Not an issue: Exactly the information of that ebuild
11 which *would* be used if you reemerge contains
12 the relevant data.
13
14 > * Introduction of :=3D dependencies
15
16 This is not a "minor update" in dependencies
17 and thus requires a revbump.
18
19 > * pkg_*rm
20
21 Not related.
22
23 > Which brings us back to the
24
25 ... previous childish behaviour

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>