Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] custom profiles?

[Joakim Tjernlund]

> 
> > Why is --dynamic-deps=y default? This feels like lying about your true 
> > deps, I am probably missing
> > something here, an example would be great:)  
> 
> It's a legacy behavior, since portage has always behaved this way, and ebuild 
> developers have relied upon 
> it (resulting in broken dependency calculations without it).

Here is odd difference:

emerge --dynamic-deps=n changed-deps=y -a1 vanilla-sources
...
   Nothing to merge