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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:46:11
Message-Id: p719vg$85q$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless? by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 26/02/18 17:24, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 02/26/2018 10:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Well, I'm on amd64, not ~amd64, and this morning portage wanted to remerge
5 >> 217 packages. Removing --changed-deps reduced that to one: sys-devel/llvm.
6 >>
7 >
8 > You do need to reinstall those.
9 >
10 > The latest (un)stable versions of automake are hard-coded in
11 > autotools.eclass, and they wind up in the dependency string of every
12 > ebuild that uses the eclass. It's stupid, we don't need to do it, and it
13 > breaks all of those packages for other PMS-compliant package managers
14 > (--changed-deps is portage-only). Sorry, we can't make people not do
15 > this, apparently.
16
17 Can't you whitelist packages like automake so that they don't trigger
18 rebuilds? Or at least provide a configurable whitelist (for make.conf)
19 where we can add packages that don't trigger changed-deps rebuilds?
20
21 There is no reason to rebuild anything just because of an automake
22 update. This is just madness.

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