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From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se>
To: "gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:51:41
Message-Id: 1426233097.3123.5.camel@transmode.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles? by Zac Medico
1 On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 17:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 03/12/2015 02:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
3 > >
4 > >
5 > >
6 > > >
7 > > > > Why is --dynamic-deps=y default? This feels like lying about your true deps, I am probably missing
8 > > > > something here, an example would be great:)
9 > > >
10 > > > It's a legacy behavior, since portage has always behaved this way, and ebuild developers have relied
11 > > > upon
12 > > > it (resulting in broken dependency calculations without it).
13 > >
14 > > Here is odd difference:
15 > >
16 > > emerge --dynamic-deps=n changed-deps=y -a1 vanilla-sources
17 > > ...
18 > > Nothing to merge
19 > >
20 >
21 > That's normal, because --changed-deps implies --selective (a number of options do this). If you add --
22 > selective=n to the above command, you'll get the same result regardless of the --changed-deps option.
23
24 Thanks, now it works as before.
25 Is there something else I should look out for? Behaviour that has changed?
26
27 Jocke