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.
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next prev 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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