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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:19:59
Message-Id: 20120607191346.56963cc7@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Zac Medico
1 On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:47:19 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 06/06/2012 11:12 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:45:55 -0700
5 > > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
6 > >> Can you explain how Exherbo is handling dbus-glib rebuilds after
7 > >> glib:2 updates?
8 > >
9 > > Badly, most likely.
10 >
11 > And, I suspect that they'd be handling with ABI_SLOT operator deps, if
12 > they were available.
13
14 Nope. They'd be handling it with something known as 'parts' (which is a
15 way of removing a subset of an installed package's contents and turning
16 off a subset of its option flags), plus SLOT and option dependencies.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>