On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:18:22 -0400
> Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Revbump -- very important in this case, as the slot-operator dep
>> (iirc) does not take effect to allow sub-slot-triggered until after a
>> version with the slot-operator has been emerged.
>>
>> So we want users to re-emerge packages either at the same time
>> libpng-1.6 hits the tree, or beforehand so that they will be triggered
>> for rebuild when libpng-1.6 hits.
>>
>
>
> so we force two rebuilds instead of one ?
>

Well, ideally you would do it in conjunction with a version bump
rather than a revbump.

But failing that, a revbump for an EAPI + dependency change seems like
the safest option.

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