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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:52:05
Message-Id: 1406278313.20388.9.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps by "Michał Górny"
1 El vie, 25-07-2014 a las 00:06 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
2 [...]
3 > > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions:
4 > > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...)
5 > > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the
6 > > installed files (for example, -r1.1)
7 > >
8 > > But I am not sure if it could be viable from a "technical" point of
9 > > view :(
10 >
11 > I'm afraid it couldn't. The major problem is not knowing *when* to
12 > migrate metadata, portage usually gets that right. The problem is in
13 > getting the correct output which is often near to impossible.
14 >
15
16 But, isn't it something up to developer in that case? I mean, we should
17 have a list of things that deserve that VDB regeneration and, then, make
18 the -r1.1 revbump instead of the major one.