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On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:37:53 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. |
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If the change doesn't affect the installed code, it is encouraged to |
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avoid unnecessary rebuilding. |
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For example, a new version of LibreOffice or Chromium depends on libfoo, |
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but the dev doesn't notice and already has libfoo installed so it works |
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for him. You also have it installed so the upgrade works for you, then it |
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fails for me and I file a bug report. If the dev revbumped the ebuild, |
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you would have to spend a couple of hours rebuilding Chromium to get |
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exactly the same code you had before. By not revbumping it, he fixes the |
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problem for me without inconveniencing you. |
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