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From: Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:32:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2266662.ksUCxnlt8l@bluering> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC_tCmr9vo+-M1EC6c35AZH=rLAeNrM1kkmEkShYpRttZSNeuQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday, 25 September 2017 4:51:22 AM AEST John Blinka wrote:
> > Is this an officially approved technique??  it is DIRTY.
> 
> I imagine that it is sanctioned, otherwise why would there be a
> --changed-deps flag to emerge?  Does seem dirty.  Glad you asked the
> question.  Would love to learn why this is allowed.  In my experience, it
> happens quite often.


Well, --changed-deps is also there for when you change USE flags on your system 
to activate (or deactivate) software features.


-- 
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.     http://andor.dropbear.id.au/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25  7:32 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 [this message]
2017-09-24 20:05 ` Neil Bothwick
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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