Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] emerge: enable --dynamic-deps=y by default once again (bug 646458)
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 08:26:59
Message-Id: 1517646412.1839.5.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] emerge: enable --dynamic-deps=y by default once again (bug 646458) by Zac Medico
1 W dniu pią, 02.02.2018 o godzinie 18∶23 -0800, użytkownik Zac Medico
2 napisał:
3 > There's been a lot of pushback involving the --dynamic-deps=n default.
4
5 Most of it pushed by a single rogue developer.
6
7 > What we really need is a tool to apply dependency changes in-place,
8 > without the need for a rebuild.
9
10 So what is the plan for the 'tool'? Who is working on it? How will it
11 magically work?
12
13 > Reverts: 2905e1c2c28d ("Disable dynamic-deps by default")
14 > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/646458
15
16 This is a horrible idea, and I find it outrageous that you submit it for
17 review in the middle of the night an then merge yourself 40 minutes
18 later, and make into a release.
19
20 The main result we're going to see now is a lot of users hit with
21 a lot of confusing messages. Yes, you've already made this a mess with
22 that --changed-deps-report but this is only getting worse. Now nobody
23 will be able to figure out what way things are supposed to work,
24 and if they're forced to rebuild everything.
25
26 I'm pretty sure some developers will use this as an excuse to stop
27 revbumping stuff, and in a few days we're be back at square one.
28
29 --
30 Best regards,
31 Michał Górny

Replies