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On 01/22/2018 09:28 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> Am Montag, 22. Januar 2018, 08:01:08 CET schrieb Zac Medico: |
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>> According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need to be |
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>> accompanied by a revision bump in order to trigger rebuilds for users. |
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>> Therefore, you should only need to use --changed-deps=y for a single |
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>> deep @world update. After that, if you encounter installed packages with |
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>> outdated dependencies in a future deep @world update, then you should |
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>> report it as a bug. |
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> Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated dependency |
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> changes then? |
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No. |
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Bug #641346 was filed for clarification about this, but it just got |
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closed without answering the question or consulting anyone. |
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Now, every time we want to make a minor change we need to revbump half |
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the tree due to a change that has been forced mostly by people not |
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actually involved in any actual ebuild maintenance. |
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