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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for using slot and sub-slot dependencies
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:14:46
Message-Id: 525EBB6E.9000604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidelines for using slot and sub-slot dependencies by hasufell
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4 On 16/10/13 09:11 AM, hasufell wrote:
5 > On 10/16/2013 02:59 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
6 >> 4. You *can not* trust portage's --dynamic-deps anymore.
7 >
8 >> This one is fairly important. In the past, we often assumed that
9 >> portage will 'update' deps from ebuilds automatically. This is
10 >> no longer correct if sub-slots are used -- since portage simply
11 >> can't know which sub-slot of the dependency was used to build
12 >> the package.
13 >
14 > so we should always revbump when introducing subslots?
15 >
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17 Yes, but that's been recommended since the onset of EAPI=5 and
18 sub-slot/slot-operator deps, so hopefully this is nothing new.
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