On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 16:27:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 11:13:36 -0400 > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I'm just not sure how the package managers like an in-place EAPI > > change. If it works, great. > > If you don't revbump when going from an EAPI that doesn't have > subslots to one that does, and then people start using subslot deps > upon that package, it gets pretty icky. So I would highly encourage > always revbumping at least when going to EAPI 5. > we are talking about the other way around I think: package with the subslot is already eapi 5, package wanting the := dep is converted in place in that case, installed package will not have the := dep in vdb, thus will not be rebuilt; when updating libpng, old school methods will still work, and once that is done the := dep will do its job in the future. I agree it'd be nice to have everything rebuilt automatically when going from libpng 1.5 to 1.6 but I'm seeing it the other way: I don't understand why I need to rebuild half of my system just to be able to automatically rebuild it again later. Alexis.
