Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisions for USE flag changes

["William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com>]

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On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:50:14 -0400
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> We have a pull request for the devmanual that will update the revision
> documentation; namely, when to create a new one:
> 
>   https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/pull/67
> 
> The comments bring up an issue that I think can benefit from some
> hindsight. Specifically, the PR says that it's OK to change IUSE
> without creating a revision, because users can use --changed-use to
> catch it. My immediate objection to that was that --changed-use is
> specific to Portage, but let's reflect on the status quo.

The simple rule of thumb from way back when on revisions. If anything
on disk changes, then you should do a revision bump.

IUSE flag changes would in likely several ways change what is
installed. If nothing else the package database in /var/db/pkg would
change. Thus merits a revision bump.


-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.

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