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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