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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New dependencies suddenly popping up
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:07:54
Message-Id: 20140121150734.4533377f@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] New dependencies suddenly popping up by Peter Humphrey
1 On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:26:10 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2
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 --
25 Neil Bothwick
26
27 A good pun is its own reword.

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Re: [gentoo-user] New dependencies suddenly popping up Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>