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.