On 7/21/14, 11:52 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > Michał has documented the shortcomings of dynamic deps in our wiki[0]. > (Thank you!) This documentation also includes two of our possible > solutions. > > [0] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Dynamic_dependencies>
Thank you, this is very useful. I didn't understand the issue much before reading that page. One question: why for "Removal of a USE flag along with the relevant dependencies" dynamic deps say "revbump + unnecessary rebuild"? What would happen without the revbump? > 1. Improve dynamic-deps. This is, as Michał pointed out earlier in > this thread a pipe dream. Agreed. > 2. Remove dynamic-deps. This is what I think currently makes sense. +1 I also think it's the best option. Paweł
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