On 14/08/2014 23:23, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 14/08/2014 18:09, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Сергей <protsero...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I have looked at dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r4 and >>>> dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r5 ebuilds and compared them. >>>> dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r5 has PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" (r4 had no >>>> PYTHON_TARGETS) and now python-updater doesn't rebuild libgamin. Seems >>>> like now everything is ok and it was only a portage bug. >>>> >>> >>> It is actually a bug with python-updater. However, we have no plans to >>> fix it; instead, the problem will be resolved once all python-based >>> ebuilds are migrated to python-r1.eclass and therefore utilize >>> PYTHON_TARGETS. >>> >>> At that point, python-updater will become obsolete and you will no >>> longer need to run it. >> >> >> Um, yeah. >> >> That's what they said about revdep-rebuild when @preserved-rebuild hit. >> And then again when sub-slots hit. But revdep-rebuild to this day still >> catches things both of those solutions missed. >> >> In Gentoo-land I have learned to be extremely wary of any statement like >> "old xyz tool is no longer necessary" :-) >> >> It seems like the 98%-2% rule is still very much in play >> > > I have not run revdep-rebuild in over a year. If you have seen that > preserve-libs is missing things, that's a a bug. > > Slot-operators are going to take a LONG time to get implemented > tree-wide, and I agree that it may never happen. > > Packages which utilize PYTHON_TARGETS do not get rebuilt by > python-updater anyway -- it explicitly skips them. At this point, the > majority of packages that people actually use have been converted. > Many users may not even need to run python-updater if they don't have > USE=python enabled globally.
That's good to know - I wasn't aware that python-updater did that. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
