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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:59:27
Message-Id: 20180227185912.nmb3er6abj3tf5jc@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless? by Rich Freeman
1 On 2018-02-27 12:45, Rich Freeman wrote:
2
3 > I use --with-bdeps=n because I really don't care that much about
4 > build-time deps, other than stuff that is going to get updated anyway
5 > like gcc. These packages don't even need to be installed for software
6 > to work correctly, and if a dev does miss an RDEPEND there is a decent
7 > chance they'll miss it in DEPEND also.
8
9 Ok, so this looks like the relevant one in the current mess, at least.
10 But: if you omit --with-bdeps, what happens in the (relatively frequent)
11 situation when an already installed package is being updated and
12 acquired a new build dependency, which is not yet installed?
13
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