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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:28:18
Message-Id: 2ee304b8-10b0-30b5-b838-622826f34fb4@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless? by Neil Bothwick
1 On 02/27/2018 03:30 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 >
3 > --with-bdeps=n. Once a package is installed, it doesn't matter what
4 > happens to its build deps.
5
6 FWIW, the rationale for enabling bdeps by default for "upgrade" actions
7 is that the old build deps are already installed; so if there's a major
8 security vulnerability in one of them, you probably want to update it.