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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:17:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] version/slot locked dependencies in eclasses like
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 01/22/2018 11:37 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>>
>>> If the dependencies are to remain in the eclasses, then the eclasses
>>> should get a new revision when those dependencies change. Afterwards,
>>> the consumers can be revbumped and stabilized normally to utilize the
>>> new eclass.
>>
>> While that sounds like the right thing to do in theory, updating all
>> consumers of autotools.eclass whenever a new version of automake is
>> stabilized is really a lot of work for very little benefit.
>
> Is now a good time to reconsider why we're manually listing stable
> versions of automake in autotools.eclass?

Yeah, it seems like we might be able to replace it with an unbounded dependency.

For the purpose of automake-wrapper, we might set an environment
variable using the output of "best_version dev-utils/automake".