hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Dynamics deps are already broken, not consistently enabled (e.g. when > subslots are in use)
Just to make it clear: No, dynamic deps are not broken. What is broken is that portage does not use them consistently. It would be a rather bad idea to change policy just because of this portage bug and force users to permanently do unnecessary recompilations. At least, for me, it would mean that I have to change distribution, since I cannot afford this. > optional and not defined in PMS. Static deps are also optional and not defined in PMS. In fact, PMS makes no claim *where* to read the DEP strings from; it only specified how they are to be stored in the tree. Quite the opposite, PMS claims that one cannot rely on anything stored in /var/db
