On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:05 PM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 9/12/19 12:55 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > Portage only handles rebuilds for slot-operator deps in RDEPEND. It > > ignores slot-operators in DEPEND. > > > > Sure, but putting them in RDEPEND isn't a problem. It's not like the > statically-linked bundled dependencies actually go away with a depclean, > anyway.
They do "go away" if you pass the right options to emerge, or if you install it from a binpkg in the first place.