On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 16:42 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > So for people like me, neither being a developer nor managing a local > server for binary packages (thanks Andreas for pointing out this special > case), "--changed-deps" really is an option not to be used. > > Case finally closed :-) >
If only. You need to use it whenever a developer makes an important dependency change inside an ebuild or eclass without updating the revision number (e.g. -r1). But --changed-use slows things down a lot, so you also don't want to use it *every* time.