Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] A way for trying to prevent useless rebuilds

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El jue, 25-07-2013 a las 12:00 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
> On 07/25/2013 11:54 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > This question comes to my mind every time a developer decides to
> > drop/add a USE flag to ebuilds like gcc/webkit-gtk/libreoffice... 
> > 
> > I think that we should have a file (like used for category movements) to
> > let PM know how to handle this situation. 
> > 
> > For example, 
> > category/foo-1.0 has a "gnome" USE flag but, later, that one is dropped:
> > -> If it is now *enabling* that support always, our file could have
> > something like:
> > category/foo gnome + -> that would mean that, when "gnome" USE flag is
> > NOT found, portage assumes it as being enabled, that will mean that
> > people having previously "gnome" enabled wouldn't need to rebuild the
> > package
> > 
> > ... and the opposite
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> We could do something like that. You should propose it in the gentoo-pms
> list.

OK, wanted to be sure a similar idea wasn't rejected before :)