On 05/10/22 00:45, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Friday 21 October 2005 22:13, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> > On Friday 21 October 2005 02:24 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > but at least now you know why you should not use --deep.
> >
> > Why not? I use it here and I never get crashes.. One doesnt mean the other.
> >
> 
> because some apps (like, for example xine) doesn't like it, when some of their 
> dependencies get upgraded with a --deep world (like ffmpeg or transcode), 
> while themselves are not recombiled.
> 
> xine will not crash - but some video-filters will be gone.
> 
> It is just not wise:
> App X linked against library L.
> Now you do an --update --deep world.
> lib L gets a new version L.1.1.
> But X does not recompiled, and funny things can happen now.

This reasoning is pretty much void when dealing with libraries, since
there's often more than one application depending on a particular
library. 

Example:
App A and app B link agains library L.
Run an 'emerge -u A' and app A, and library L gets upgraded.
App B is fucked in the same way as you having run an 'emerge -deep
world', since B is not recompiled but its dependency is.

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