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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:09:11
Message-Id: 20140726170916.1ce6d600@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by Martin Vaeth
1 Dnia 2014-07-26, o godz. 15:01:46
2 Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> napisał(a):
3
4 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:
6 > >> The idea is to act "as usual", just to skip unnecessary phases...
7 > >
8 > > So someone adds optional selinux support to a package, and then you end
9 > > up with selinux being "on", despite not having it, and then another
10 > > package depends upon your package with [selinux], and the dependency is
11 > > mistakenly treated as met...
12 >
13 > If the developer has added IUSE=selinux and bumps from -r1 to -r1.1,
14 > he has of course verified that this USE-change does not require
15 > recompilation either way, since otherwise he would not have been
16 > allowed to explicitly say the package manager that recompilation
17 > is unnecessary.
18 > So the dependency is *correctly* treated as met.
19
20 Excuse me but are we talking about updating *DEPEND or IUSE?
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny

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