On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 01:52:57PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Michał Górny told me on IRC that I might be approaching this incorrectly (or
> > at least, inefficiently). I was working on the massive bug-spree (right now
> > stopped around 22% of the packages to investigate) so I'm temporarily
> > holding off until I'm certain.
> >
> > The only change I want to instill on packages is to remove the USE="selinux"
> > specific dependency to a sec-policy/selinux-* package from the DEPEND
> > variable. So something like:
> >
> > DEPEND="
> > foo
> > - bar
> > - selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-bez )"
> > + bar"
> >
> > If I am allowed to do this change without revbumping, I can just stop making
> > massive bug reports and do the change(s) myself...
>
> You should have emphasized that the dependency will still be
> in RDEPEND. As I said with QA hat on, such a change is fine since it
> affects build-time dependencies only. People who installed the package
> already are not affected.
Thanks. I'll do the necessary updates tomorrow then (without revbump) and
invalidate
the bug reports I already made.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
