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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:03:31
Message-Id: fac92167-4505-431a-bb7f-32440a21f447@email.android.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps by Pacho Ramos
1 On July 22, 2014 11:25:05 AM CEST, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
2 >El mar, 22-07-2014 a las 10:32 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand escribió:
3 >[...]
4 >> I find it somewhat curious that the difference between ~arch and
5 >> stable hasn't been brought up in this discussion yet. IMHO a user on
6 >> ~arch should expect a higher number of rebuilds, it _is_ after all
7 >> testing, whereby at the point it reaches stable, the deps are
8 >> hopefully more likely to be correct to begin with.
9 >>
10 >> Does anyone have any insight into where these changes most often
11 >occur?
12 >>
13 >
14 >Well, I have seen multiple times of this kind of fixes being noticed by
15 >people running really old stable boxes. They notice them when they
16 >update to latest stable and, then, we need to fix depends raising the
17 >versions usually :/
18 >
19 >Maybe this discussion should be focused on trying to think about how to
20 >standardize a way for distinguish between revision bumps needing full
21 >rebuild or only VDB updates :|
22
23 As someone who regularly adds in dependencies without bumping (adding USE=selinux dependencies to the proper SELinux policy) because that would trigger lots of totally unnecessary rebuilds:
24
25 +1
26
27 Wkr,
28 Sven
29 --
30 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>