On 01/24/2013 07:15 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > In general, I would recommend for any library maintainers, to either > file bugs against the rdeps of a package or directly update the rdeps > (with permission, of course) when implementing sub-slots. Of course, > I believe the rdeps of a library can add slot operators to their > *DEPEND atoms even if the library doesn't have a sub-slot (yet); this > would be useful anyways, as a new sub-slot in the lib will > automatically trigger appropriate rebuilding.
Yes, that's a good idea. However, it means that the introduction of the first sub-slot will trigger a rebuild of the dependent package. So, it's a good idea to introduce the first sub-slot during a version bump where something has changed that justifies a sub-slot bump. -- Thanks, Zac
