On July 22, 2014 11:25:05 AM CEST, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>El mar, 22-07-2014 a las 10:32 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand escribió:
>[...]
>> I find it somewhat curious that the difference between ~arch and
>> stable hasn't been brought up in this discussion yet. IMHO a user on
>> ~arch should expect a higher number of rebuilds, it _is_ after all
>> testing, whereby at the point it reaches stable, the deps are
>> hopefully more likely to be correct to begin with.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any insight into where these changes most often
>occur?
>> 
>
>Well, I have seen multiple times of this kind of fixes being noticed by
>people running really old stable boxes. They notice them when they
>update to latest stable and, then, we need to fix depends raising the
>versions usually :/
>
>Maybe this discussion should be focused on trying to think about how to
>standardize a way for distinguish between revision bumps needing full
>rebuild or only VDB updates :|

As someone who regularly adds in dependencies without bumping (adding 
USE=selinux dependencies to the proper SELinux policy) because that would 
trigger lots of totally unnecessary rebuilds: 

+1

Wkr,
  Sven
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