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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: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:48:14
Message-Id: 5500AA09.3000903@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles? by Brian Dolbec
1 On 03/11/2015 01:27 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
2 > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:16:06 +0000
3 > Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se> wrote:
4 >> Why is --dynamic-deps=y default? This feels like lying about your
5 >> true deps, I am probably missing something here, an example would be
6 >> great:)
7 >
8 >
9 > Because the last time we even discussed the possibility of changing
10 > this and steps that might be to fix problems,... There were a few
11 > individuals that raised such a stink about it, they even brought it to
12 > council to have us STOPPED.
13
14 Well, stuff like this happens when you have lots of users. On the bright
15 side, at least we have users! Something similar happened when I tried to
16 make emerge --quiet-build the default.
17
18 > So, as a result much of the portage team don't feel like working on
19 > portage. Heaven forbid we actually make a change!
20
21 It's not so bad, considering that you can simply use --dynamic-deps=n if
22 you want, and now --changed-deps makes it feasible regardless of what
23 ebuild developers do.
24 --
25 Thanks,
26 Zac

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