Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Dnia 2014-07-21, o godz. 22:21:42
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> napisał(a):

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:15:41 +0200
> Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:06:07 +0200
> > Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> 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.
> 
> ...assuming that the ebuild hasn't been removed, and that it can be
> associated correctly when overlays are involved, and that the change
> wasn't a change where a saved pkg_prerm uses the old dependency, not
> the new one, or all the other ways this breaks.

You forgot about slot operators.

The funny thing is, almost none of the Gentoo developers even know that
slot operators disable dynamic dependencies completely in portage.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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