From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DDA13877A for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:15:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A5DAE0A6D; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B1CEE086D for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:15:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from marga.jer-c2.orkz.net (D4B2706A.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [212.178.112.106]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jer) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DEC4D33DF72 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:15:41 +0200 From: Jeroen Roovers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps Message-ID: <20140721231541.7ac00b52@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <1405976767.1013.9.camel@gentoo.org> References: <53CD6BED.10603@gentoo.org> <201407212153.04605.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <20140721205527.142cb3d5@googlemail.com> <1405976767.1013.9.camel@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 18075669-684c-4d7c-8690-a24ff9ee85b9 X-Archives-Hash: f7effbd18e2d9be81bf9869c0ae1b4ca On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:06:07 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions: > - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...) > - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the > installed files (for example, -r1.1) Or the package manager looks at changed in *DEPEND between the repo and vdb and resolves those. Oh wait, portage already does. And we've been talking about this for something like six years now? Probably longer. jer