On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 10:34 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:18:17AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 12:05:02 -0500 > > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > If a build dep of something changes, the correct response with > > > --with-bdeps=y is to rebuild everything that depends on the changed dep. > > > > Unfortunately, my learned experience of portage is the "correct > > response" is not something portage wants to do on its own without hand > > holding. > > One thing I've noticed is you say things that portage might do without > giving any specifics. > > Let's go ahead and do the change and file bugs against portage if there > are issues. >
The whole point of PMS/EAPI is that we can rely on package managers behaving reasonably for any input. Any package managers, in any version. You seem to be suggesting going in the opposite direction of making newest Portage version handle bad input. Using old version? Tough luck. Using another package manager? Tough luck. Not fitting in narrow space of solutions currently hacked around? Tough luck. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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