[gentoo-user] Re: Changing dependencies without upping version ??

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>]

On 2017-09-26 22:01, Michael Palimaka wrote:

> If the only argument is you don't want to upgrade, I'm afraid there's
> not much we can do to help you.

You're right that I don't want to upgrade, and I have already explained
my workaround for that.  But that is _not_ what I'm complaining about in
this thread.  Rather, my complaint is that such a major change is hidden
in an ebuild edit with no version/revision bump, which means I cannot
use the normal means (ie. package.mask) to prevent it.  Before I decided
to drop Qt completely, I had to make a local package of qtcustomplot in
my own repo.

Surely there are other reasons against this kind of thing?  What if
someone reports a bug in the package?  Now you don't know from the
version/rev number if it's linked with Qt4 or Qt5.  Is that not
important?

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