Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 07/25/2013 08:29 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
>>> Shall we revisit that, and try to make portage behave more correctly,
>>> even if it means more revbumps / rebuilding?
> 
>> Just set EMERGE_DEFAULT_DEPS="--dynamic-deps=n" in make.conf if you'd
>> like to test it.
> 
> 
> What (if anything) does that break or slow down?  I've had all kinds of
> recent issues with updates breaking my autobuilds due to these issues.

If you use --dynamic-deps=n then you are likely to experience more
dependency conflicts (or unsatisfied deps) triggered by installed
packages that have since had their dependencies changed without a
revision bump. These dependency conflicts are like the ones that you've
experienced with binary packages [1], but they will apply to installed
packages instead of binary packgaes.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282927
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Thanks,
Zac