On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:41:16 +0000 (UTC)
Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote:
> 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.

Yes they are.

> What is broken is that portage does not use them consistently.

Because using them consistently is impossible by design.

> 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.

This is not a Portage bug.
 
> > 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.

Incorrect.

> Quite the opposite, PMS claims that one cannot rely on
> anything stored in /var/db

Incorrect.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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