From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:40:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1a8cbe2-b0ef-3fb2-07fc-149c099211c9@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1710293.ao4jWK1sT1@pinacolada>
On 01/22/2018 09:28 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Montag, 22. Januar 2018, 08:01:08 CET schrieb Zac Medico:
>>
>> According to Gentoo policy, future ebuild dependency changes need to be
>> accompanied by a revision bump in order to trigger rebuilds for users.
>> Therefore, you should only need to use --changed-deps=y for a single
>> deep @world update. After that, if you encounter installed packages with
>> outdated dependencies in a future deep @world update, then you should
>> report it as a bug.
>
> Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated dependency
> changes then?
No.
Bug #641346 was filed for clarification about this, but it just got
closed without answering the question or consulting anyone.
Now, every time we want to make a minor change we need to revbump half
the tree due to a change that has been forced mostly by people not
actually involved in any actual ebuild maintenance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-23 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-22 7:01 [gentoo-dev] News Item: Portage Dynamic Deps Zac Medico
2018-01-22 8:24 ` Alexis Ballier
2018-01-24 20:48 ` Zac Medico
2018-01-22 9:38 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2018-01-24 20:53 ` Zac Medico
2018-01-22 10:28 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-01-22 10:53 ` James Le Cuirot
2018-01-22 16:43 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2018-01-22 16:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2018-01-24 7:05 ` Kent Fredric
2018-01-22 16:59 ` Michał Górny
2018-01-23 12:40 ` Michael Palimaka [this message]
2018-01-23 13:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Rich Freeman
2018-01-23 13:15 ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-01-23 13:40 ` Michael Palimaka
2018-01-23 17:12 ` Rich Freeman
2018-01-24 10:31 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-01-24 11:16 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-01-24 12:36 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-01-24 16:36 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-01-24 20:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
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