From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 21:05:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170924210502.3b108cac@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170924173753.bxpluo4s6f42uojo@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:37:53 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY.
If the change doesn't affect the installed code, it is encouraged to
avoid unnecessary rebuilding.
For example, a new version of LibreOffice or Chromium depends on libfoo,
but the dev doesn't notice and already has libfoo installed so it works
for him. You also have it installed so the upgrade works for you, then it
fails for me and I file a bug report. If the dev revbumped the ebuild,
you would have to spend a couple of hours rebuilding Chromium to get
exactly the same code you had before. By not revbumping it, he fixes the
problem for me without inconveniencing you.
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-24 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-24 17:37 [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ?? Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-24 18:51 ` John Blinka
2017-09-25 0:33 ` Rich Freeman
2017-09-25 8:20 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2017-09-25 7:32 ` Paul Colquhoun
2017-09-24 20:05 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2017-09-24 22:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-25 12:24 ` Michael Palimaka
2017-09-25 17:03 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-26 12:01 ` Michael Palimaka
2017-09-26 18:45 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-27 0:38 ` Kai Krakow
2017-09-27 1:30 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-27 1:35 ` Kai Krakow
2017-09-27 8:42 ` Neil Bothwick
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