On Sunday 12 June 2005 01:02, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: > Hi, > I've installed kde-meta 3.4.0 and I just did an emerge -p kde-meta, and > it wants to install 252 ebuilds. If I do an emerge -up kde-meta, it > wants to install 331 ebuilds. > In the discussion about kde split ebuilds, it was promised that the > split ebuilds would enable us to update only the programs that really > changed and save us from the bulk of recompiling the same code all over. > from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1, did upstream really change 252 or even 331 > kde-programs?! > A large number of the programs did change (I forget the actual number), but this time all packages were bumped in order to ensure that everyone recompiled all of them. This was due to a bug in the way that KDE 3.4 used visibility support in GCC 3.4 and later.
You have already benefited within the releases though where small patches are applied to individual components of KDE and only that component is recompiled rather than kdepim as a whole for example. You may notice several -3.4.1-r1 packages in there already. This universal bumping of packages should not be necessary in future. -- Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific Applications | AMD64 | KDE | net-proxy
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