From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EAED71396D0 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A80DEE0F44; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5891EE0F3C for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C04453416CA for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1502521423.1045.0.camel@gentoo.org> <4ebddcf6-1d84-684a-6e3c-96bb65c24fd2@gentoo.org> <9a9b48c9-db50-f4e5-d4bb-cb4e0ebe8858@gentoo.org> <20170814120140.GA758@meriadoc.perfinion.com> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <400510bf-a54b-e1ad-cb42-3e094b86bfde@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:22:54 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 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 In-Reply-To: <20170814120140.GA758@meriadoc.perfinion.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 765c0c32-f4dc-4230-a884-d851e7774567 X-Archives-Hash: 50f0c55ea4628f0959e19a53c9018106 On 08/14/2017 08:01 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: > > I'll give an example where revbumps are significantly inferior to > --changed-use. > > ... With --changed-use, only the people who need it (ie selinux > users) will rebuild and everyone is happy (selinux users because the > program now works and non-selinux users because they did not rebuild > for no reason). But this benefit exists only for Portage users, and can only be obtained by throwing the others under the bus. (If you change RDEPEND, you need to create a new revision anyway: https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151011-summary.txt)