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

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-07-26, o godz. 15:27:51
Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> napisał(a):

> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > All people with enough knowledge already know that this is technically
> > impossible.
>
> We already discussed in the bug how it *would* be possible,
> just nobody implements it:
>
> Portage would have to use dynamic deps throughout,
> using the data stored in /var/db only to find out
> the correct information for := dependencies.

This is only one of the issue. And what if the match for := is
incompatible with new dependency atom? Like when you replace
'dev-foo/bar:=' with '>=dev-foo/bar-2:=' but bar-1 is installed.
What if a new := dependency is added?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny