-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 24/01/13 11:39 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 01/24/2013 07:15 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> In general, I would recommend for any library maintainers, to >> either file bugs against the rdeps of a package or directly >> update the rdeps (with permission, of course) when implementing >> sub-slots. Of course, I believe the rdeps of a library can add >> slot operators to their *DEPEND atoms even if the library doesn't >> have a sub-slot (yet); this would be useful anyways, as a new >> sub-slot in the lib will automatically trigger appropriate >> rebuilding. > > Yes, that's a good idea. However, it means that the introduction of > the first sub-slot will trigger a rebuild of the dependent package. > So, it's a good idea to introduce the first sub-slot during a > version bump where something has changed that justifies a sub-slot > bump.
That seems to be what dev's are doing anyways, though. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlEBaK4ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPAAfgD+Ja3RKlfv1uWn7e3/V2rnGNQQ YY2NHIgQLQxp/Dx66hcA/iPoA7tF6cME8MtqmOumIEVrDzQpE8LEARPmCeQOlqwd =HzQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
