[gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

[Martin Vaeth]

Maxim Kammerer <mk@×××.su> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>> The funny thing is, almost none of the Gentoo developers even know that
>> slot operators disable dynamic dependencies completely in portage.
>
> So *that's* why I now have to change RDEPENDs in both the source
> ebuild and in VDB in order to augment package's dependencies before
> depclean...

Yes, static deps are a completely broken idea if not every change
causes a revbump: There does not exist something like a "minor"
change in dependencies.