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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird portage behaviour
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:32:58
Message-Id: 1538597.VAibfv6EMO@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird portage behaviour by "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina"
1 On Sunday 13 Apr 2014 22:48:43 Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote:
2
3 > The real answer is almost certainly dynamic-deps. The binary packages
4 > store the deps from BUILD time, while when you are installing things
5 > live, it allows the current ebuilds to update the deps even for
6 > installed packages.
7 >
8 > That means, after you install a package, if the deps in the ebuild are
9 > changed, portage will take that into account for source builds, but
10 > binary packages are LOCKED to the deps from the time they were built.
11 >
12 > Why dynamic-deps aren't available no matter what? Now that's a great
13 > question...
14
15 But I'd only just finished an emerge -eb world on the build host to re-create
16 the packages. Nothing could have changed in the meantime.
17
18 --
19 Regards
20 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird portage behaviour Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>