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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:17:07
Message-Id: 5336651.4QtcLKCpaN@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless? by "Holger Hoffstätte"
1 On Monday, 26 February 2018 14:52:25 GMT Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
2 > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:46:00 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
4 wrote:
5 > >> I've been using --changed-deps when doing a world upgrade ever since
6 > >> the
7 > >> news item that recommended it.
8 > >>
9 > >> However, today, this is what --changed-deps resulted in:
10 > >> https://pastebin.com/raw/7RBx6zzt
11 > >>
12 > >> This is not OK. What the hell? This is just plain broken.
13 > >
14 > > Someone probably changed a dependency in a commonly used eclass. I
15 > > would guess portage is operating as expected.
16 >
17 > As the pastebin log says it's automake-1.16 for ~arch, and
18 > since automake is used everywhere..
19
20 Well, I'm on amd64, not ~amd64, and this morning portage wanted to remerge
21 217 packages. Removing --changed-deps reduced that to one: sys-devel/llvm.
22
23 --
24 Regards,
25 Peter.

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