On 03/12/2015 02:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > >> >>> 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 >
That's normal, because --changed-deps implies --selective (a number of options do this). If you add --selective=n to the above command, you'll get the same result regardless of the --changed-deps option. -- Thanks, Zac
