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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:21:38
Message-Id: 4FCD1E4B.3060100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Pacho Ramos
1 On 06/04/2012 04:57 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > - Looks like there is no consensus about what to do and, then, this
3 > could probably be implemented on eapi... 7? While former could probably
4 > be implemented much sooner (probably even in eapi5)
5
6 Ciaran has been advocating "SLOT operator" dependencies for this, but
7 those are not designed to work with unslotted packages, which leads to
8 the issues discussed in bug 414955:
9
10 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414955#c10
11
12 The gentoo-dev mailing list would be a better place to discuss this,
13 since this issue affects the whole developer community.
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Zac

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