On 21/07/14 22:37, hasufell wrote:
> afaiu dynamic deps are broken and not defined in PMS
>
> still... people seem to fix deps without revbumping, causing users who
> either don't use dynamic deps (it's optional for portage through
> --dynamic-deps=y, although it's on by default) or who use a different PM
> to not get the fix, at worst resulting in broken dependency calculation
>
> suggestion:
> * stop fixing dependencies without revbumping
> * add an appropriate question to the dev quiz
> * remove dynamic deps from portage (afair that is already considered by
> the portage team)
>
Revision bumping for dependency change that doesn't cause the package's
file content
to change doesn't make sense; triggers useless rebuilds for users.
Portage is the official package manager, and has dynamic deps enabled by
default.
And it's already in ebuild-quiz.txt to ensure knowing when to, or not to,
revbump:
*** Ebuild technical/policy questions
1. You change a package's ebuild to install an init script. Previously,
the package had no init script at all.
Is a revision bump necessary? Why? What about when adding a patch?
So, -1, useless rebuilds is one of the biggest problems lately, it's an
relatively new problem,
people are revbumping packages for the simplest things like EAPI4->5
- Samuli
