On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 13:02:28 -0500 Brian Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. True, I had forgotten to consider the mask message. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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