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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:51:07
Message-Id: 55023475.1050008@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles? by Joakim Tjernlund
1 On 03/12/2015 02:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 >
5 >>
6 >>> Why is --dynamic-deps=y default? This feels like lying about your true deps, I am probably missing
7 >>> something here, an example would be great:)
8 >>
9 >> It's a legacy behavior, since portage has always behaved this way, and ebuild developers have relied upon
10 >> it (resulting in broken dependency calculations without it).
11 >
12 > Here is odd difference:
13 >
14 > emerge --dynamic-deps=n changed-deps=y -a1 vanilla-sources
15 > ...
16 > Nothing to merge
17 >
18
19 That's normal, because --changed-deps implies --selective (a number of
20 options do this). If you add --selective=n to the above command, you'll
21 get the same result regardless of the --changed-deps option.
22 --
23 Thanks,
24 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles? Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se>
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles? Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se>