On 03/02/2017 11:24 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 03/02/2017 02:05 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >>> >>> This is why we can't have nice things. >> >> For those that are interested, I'm planning to to make --with-bdeps >> automatically enabled when possible: >> > > > I agree with this ^ but I don't think portage should rebuild for DEPEND > at all. It creates one more dangerous "it works in portage!" situation > that will plague users of other package managers. > > (I'm not saying it couldn't be useful, but it should go in the next EAPI > if we're gonna do it.)
PMS doesn't specify when rebuilds are supposed to be triggered. You can consider the rebuilds as a means to satisfy the dependencies. Saying that the package manager should not make an effort to satisfy dependencies would be silly. -- Thanks, Zac
