On 01/23/2018 07:40 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: >> >> Did you come up with a solution how to handle eclass-generated dependency >> changes then? > > No. > > Bug #641346 was filed for clarification about this, but it just got > closed without answering the question or consulting anyone. > > Now, every time we want to make a minor change we need to revbump half > the tree due to a change that has been forced mostly by people not > actually involved in any actual ebuild maintenance.
You could always set "--dynamic-deps y" on your machine, and ignore the breakage caused to end users (i.e. the situation last week).
