Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 26 February 2018 15:24:40 GMT Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 02/26/2018 10:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Well, I'm on amd64, not ~amd64, and this morning portage wanted to
> > remerge 217 packages. Removing --changed-deps reduced that to one:
> > sys-devel/llvm.
> You do need to reinstall those.
>
> The latest (un)stable versions of automake are hard-coded in
> autotools.eclass, and they wind up in the dependency string of every
> ebuild that uses the eclass. It's stupid, we don't need to do it, and it
> breaks all of those packages for other PMS-compliant package managers
> (--changed-deps is portage-only). Sorry, we can't make people not do
> this, apparently.

Right. Now where do I submit my claim for two-and-a-half hours of time spent 
on pointless recompiling?  ;-)

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Regards,
Peter.