On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:44:16 -0700 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/06/2015 06:33 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > I don't think the revbump of net-misc/openconnect-7.06-r1 to -r2 was > > necessary. When the change purely affects use flags, that is picked > > up by the pm and there is no need to force everyone to rebuild the > > package. > > The same goes for dependency changes if the package manager has an > option like emerge --changed-deps. So, apparently the assumption is > that all relevant package managers implement behavior like emerge > --newuse and/or --changed-use, but they don't necessarily implement > --changed-deps? I think the general assumption is: --newuse is commonly used, albeit inducing sometimes useless rebuilds; --changed-deps almost always induces useless rebuilds and is thus rarely used (and is newer I think). But the point here is different: A revbump doesn't leave the choice to use these options because of an hypothetical common subset of PMs that doesn't provide --newuse to its users...
