cilly wrote: > On Jun 12, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Christoph Mende wrote: > >> It seems a bit that you didn't fully understand that case. That >> package >> fails to install for 10% but works flawlessly for the other 90%. Those >> 10% will get the fix even without a version bump, the other 90% don't, >> but that's ok, they don't need it. A version bump would mean wasting >> the time to recompile it for those 90%. I agree that there should be a >> ChangeLog entry, but I think nearly all devs do that already :> > > I did understand. But sometimes the mods could cause an error while > reemerging for some of the 90%. We had that already.
No, you're missing the point; by not rev-bumping, that 90% don't get forced to remerge. Honestly, the devs are just trying to avoid unnecessary recompiles. My advice is to log onto irc.freenode.org and ask these kinda questions in #gentoo-dev-help as they'll explain if asked. If there is a valid use-case, then you can post it as an enhancement request on bugzilla. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml has links to docs in other languages. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
