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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
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El sáb, 26-07-2014 a las 12:00 +0000, Martin Vaeth escribió:
[...]
> Probably there are many more examples than 1.-4, but I hope
> that the point becomes clear: Whenever packages split, merge,
> or can substitute each other, dependency changes are necessary,
> and rebuilds caused by these are unnecessary.
> 
> Unfortunately, such things happen *very* frequently...
> 
> Nobody is to blame for this; the PM just should be ready
> to deal with such situations without unnecessary rebuilds,
> be it by dynamic deps or by a mechanism to avoid
> recompilation.
> 

I have also seen the need of add slots to DEPEND/RDEPEND due the
inclusion of an updated package like gstreamer:1.0/gtk+:3/libpng... or
needing to add forgotten USE deps (like package[introspection?] or
package[X]).