-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/01/2015 09:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 21:11:22 +0200 Kristian Fiskerstrand > <k...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 10/01/2015 09:12 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 15:08:00 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius >>> <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> Slotmove VDB updates *should* be allow slotmove-related >>>> changes to be excluded here too, but unfortunately with >>>> portage not doing updates to rdeps properly, at this time all >>>> rdeps will need to be revbumped when their RDEPEND changes. >>> >>> This is a severe misrepresentation of what the issue actually >>> is. >>> >> >> Thanks for pointing that out, would you please elaborate on what >> the issue actually is for the purpose of this discussion? > > Some people expect Portage to do the impossible when handling slot > moves, on the basis that with a superficial understanding it looks > like it could partially work in certain easy cases. Thus "all rdeps > will need to be revbumped when their RDEPEND changes" is not an "at > this time" thing at all, but a genuine requirement. >
Thank you. I generally prefer the always-revbump approach to avoid the consideration of whether it is needed or not as a matter of KISS policy, but that provides a valuable technical argument for it as well. - -- Kristian Fiskerstrand Public PGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJWDYgtAAoJECULev7WN52F8MsH/0SL0Iygoh7b4AzEIyNmczNW dPei13uGkmxMx4IojDZYIr/j3iRevLuEaiXi1DJXBGvY61Y8tez08mqrzLJEDtvq jeFxqk0Bm8p0XEQ2CMnk4wJuVkSrfvrwHpScCVW3T6yTiEmK6bbZUjhNTH+rEm8D H5uBLYAgJblVjjUcBrYRT9y2EIdUT5miAN2I2YPzT3BpC4FPplrCvA4QvU2i32pj giEQo7eM5krw2ygEh6Tln8T//mrdAx2OKFbgMgoSBYDQDHK/d2YT7anUBWeuAxQB GfjvIZPmgYAShOOCq00FCqOW4amO2UpovkcxbKRUjgtJ83epa3RRXuhm7Hwcv5o= =Rmqm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
