On 09/18/2015 01:32 PM, hasufell wrote: > On 09/18/2015 01:14 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:04:45 +0200 >> hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >>> On 09/18/2015 12:56 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >>>> On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:58:09 +0200 >>>> hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 09/18/2015 11:55 AM, Duncan wrote: >>>>>> Alexis Ballier posted on Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:04:19 +0200 as >>>>>> excerpted: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> Keep in mind what this implies when you change these >>>>>>>> dependencies without bumping the ebuilds that use them. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> only way i see these changing is with a new ros_messages_*** >>>>>>> useflag, which will cause a rebuild anyway >>>>>> >>>>>> ?? Only with --newuse or similar, tho? Otherwise USE (or >>>>>> USE_EXPAND here) changes don't trigger rebuilds, do they? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Correct. It's not good to rely on this and expect users to have a >>>>> certain update pattern or even use a particular PM. >>>>> >>>> >>>> then they wont have the messages if they don't rebuild, and >>>> cat/pkg[ros_messages_newthing] deps wont be satisfied and the pm >>>> will do the right thing by rebuilding. >>>> nothing to worry about, really. >>>> >>> >>> cat/pkg[ros_messages_newthing] will not be in users VDB until you >>> revbump cat/pkg, so I don't think it's that easy. >>> >> >> and i think you're confused about what dynamic deps is and is not: >> cat/pkg[ros_messages_newthing] is not in vdb, so is not satisfied, so >> pm tries to find something that satisfies it from tree or dies. >> > > I'm not confused about dynamic deps, but about your example, because you > didn't say anything about revbumps. > > If cat/pkg is not (rev)bumped, then there will be no check about whether > cat/pkg[ros_messages_newthing] is satisfied in the first place. >
correcting: if the package adding cat/pkg[ros_messages_newthing] is not (rev)bumped
