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

[Andreas K. Huettel]

> > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions:
> > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...)
> > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the
> > installed files (for example, -r1.1)
> >
> > But I am not sure if it could be viable from a "technical" point of
> > view :(
>
> I'm afraid it couldn't. The major problem is not knowing *when* to
> migrate metadata, portage usually gets that right. The problem is in
> getting the correct output which is often near to impossible.

I think we'd appreciate some more information here:

* What exactly is the metadata that we're talking about?
* How much of it can be generated by sourcing the ebuild, without running 
phases?
* When does that exactly break? Example?

Thanks!!!

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
kde, council