On 2/8/2018 12:14 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 18:05:55 +0100 > Michael Lienhardt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for the information and sorry for the noise. >> I wasn't fully aware of the meaning of the --dynamics-deps and >> --changed-deps option. I am still not entirely convinced that >> changing a package after it is committed to the repository cannot do >> harm: even as a user, I would like to know when and why a package's >> dependencies changed. But I don't maintain packages so my opinion is >> not very relevant, and the gentoo guidelines indeed allow to change >> the dependencies inline. > > It's not like this stuff is totally invisible as it is noted in the git > log. We just don't want to tie up several minutes of CPU time for the > majority of users for no tangible benefit. >
The benefit is that portage won't yell at you for having a masked package installed and no obvious way to clean it up. Brian
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