On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 08:36:47PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:55:11 -0500 > William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sure, but rebuild changes are exactly what you would want. that's how > > software written in go gets rebuilt for example, which is exactly what > > you want when go is upgraded. > > > > I agree that some rebuilds might be unnecessary, but if you don't like > > compiling/building software Gentoo isn't for you. > > > > William > > I suspect the problem might be moreso that --with-bdeps=y makes portage > prone to barf in this condition, not try recompiling.
No one has said there is a bug in portage in this situation, so I'd rather not speculate until we have a bug report. If a build dep of something changes, the correct response with --with-bdeps=y is to rebuild everything that depends on the changed dep. William
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