On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:50:14 -0400 Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have a pull request for the devmanual that will update the revision > documentation; namely, when to create a new one: > > https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/pull/67 > > The comments bring up an issue that I think can benefit from some > hindsight. Specifically, the PR says that it's OK to change IUSE > without creating a revision, because users can use --changed-use to > catch it. My immediate objection to that was that --changed-use is > specific to Portage, but let's reflect on the status quo. The simple rule of thumb from way back when on revisions. If anything on disk changes, then you should do a revision bump. IUSE flag changes would in likely several ways change what is installed. If nothing else the package database in /var/db/pkg would change. Thus merits a revision bump. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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