On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:21:48 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Apart from a reply by Dale which more or less confirmed (at least the > way I read it) that the section regarding the "--changed-deps" option in > "man emerge" does not contain much valuable information, there was no > response whatsoever, not even from the "gentoo.org" folks on this list! > > And none of the examples to overcome problems provided by others in this > thread ever contained "--changed-deps". Does this mean "--changed-deps" > is a NOOP, a relict from days long gone by, meanwhile without any funct- > ionality, just provided for compatibility in order to not break ancient > scripts?
It's not a relic, it's a fairly recent addition. It's a bit of a belt and braces approach which basically says "rebuild everything that might just possibly, maybe, in some circumstances have some sort of effect". -- Neil Bothwick Heisenberg may have been here.
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