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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic dependencies
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:46:31
Message-Id: 55FAA773.1000403@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic dependencies by Rich Freeman
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4 On 09/16/2015 07:09 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
5 > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Andreas K. Huettel
6 > <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
7 >> Hi all,
8
9 ..
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11 >
12 > I'll go ahead and start a tangent on this thread right here. As a
13 > first step can we separately consider the proposal to require a
14 > revbump anytime a package's RDEPENDS changes? I'm referring here
15 > to directly-specified RDEPENDS, not those inherited from an eclass
16 > or virtual.
17 >
18 > I agree completely that we need to solve the eclass and virtual
19 > issue and that is by far the stickier part of the mess. However,
20 > can we at least get ebuild authors to stop making changes to their
21 > RDEPENDS without revbumps?
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23 That would certainly be a step in the right direction
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25 fwiw, I've been running for quite a while with dynamic deps disabled
26 on a few of my computers for quite some time, specifically the
27 workstations (desktop/laptop), and the sun hasn't dropped out of the
28 sky yet.
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