El sáb, 26-07-2014 a las 12:00 +0000, Martin Vaeth escribió: [...] > Probably there are many more examples than 1.-4, but I hope > that the point becomes clear: Whenever packages split, merge, > or can substitute each other, dependency changes are necessary, > and rebuilds caused by these are unnecessary. > > Unfortunately, such things happen *very* frequently... > > Nobody is to blame for this; the PM just should be ready > to deal with such situations without unnecessary rebuilds, > be it by dynamic deps or by a mechanism to avoid > recompilation. >
I have also seen the need of add slots to DEPEND/RDEPEND due the inclusion of an updated package like gstreamer:1.0/gtk+:3/libpng... or needing to add forgotten USE deps (like package[introspection?] or package[X]).
