Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acct-group packages ??

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 8/5/19 3:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 09:59:06 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 
>> I see, I got caught (again) by the favorite gentoo sleight of hand of
>> updating a package and not bumping its version.  In my case, eudev.
> 
> I've not checked lately, but policy was that if an ebuild change did not
> result in differences in the installed files, there was no need for a
> version bump. This avoids needless recompiling of packages.
> 

Realistically, almost all ebuild changes should incur a new revision. I
would much rather recompile 100 packages *and have it work* than compile
10 packages and have it crash three times requiring manual intervention
because the tree is so screwed up.

We have better guidelines these days:

https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions

but they still give developers too much freedom to be lazy and commit
important changes without a revision. The "straight to stable" advice
contradicts our existing stabilization policy, and the USE flag advice
says that you can rely on a non-default, portage-only feature to prevent
breakage.