On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 10:15 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> However, it's been a long-standing general practise that if there are
> no deps in the tree older than what is necessary for a package, that
> package doesn't need to have a minimum version on the dependency atom.
>  As such, issues similar to this are probably lying in wait all other
> the place in the tree.

this is a common misconception: ebuilds must have min. deps matching
their requirements (exactly because of this problem)

it can be fixed on the user side by 'emerge -uDN world' meanwhile but
this doesn't mean the ebuild doesn't have a bug, even if minor

Alexis.


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