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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New dependencies suddenly popping up
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:13:34
Message-Id: 3703284.sTxdJDMlmj@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] New dependencies suddenly popping up by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tuesday 21 Jan 2014 15:07:34 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:26:10 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > But cairo was last emerged 16 days ago and cdrtools last September, so
4 > > why have these dependencies suddenly appeared today? Portage has been
5 > > at 2.2.7 since last year too. Emerge --info doesn't mention lzo.
6 >
7 > # ChangeLog for x11-libs/cairo
8 > # Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
9 > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-libs/cairo/ChangeLog,v 1.358
10 > 2014/01/20 12:55:37 yngwin Exp $
11 >
12 > 20 Jan 2014; Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> cairo-1.12.14-r4.ebuild,
13 > cairo-1.12.16.ebuild:
14 > Specify automagic dev-libs/lzo dependency (bug #477078)
15 >
16 > > I can't think of anything else that might have changed, unless new
17 > > dependencies have been shoved into the ebuilds. Does that sort of thing
18 > > happen in a well run family?
19 >
20 > Yes, if it is part of fixing bugs. The cairo ebuild revision was not
21 > bumped because the change doesn't affect the binaries created, but the
22 > changed deps do force the installation of lzo.
23
24 Thank you both, Neil and Eroen.
25
26 --
27 Regards
28 Peter