> One of the biggest differences I can think of between a source-based
> distro (such as Gentoo) and a binary-package based one is that you rarely
> have library dependency issues.  If you compile a newer package against an
> older library, it will usually still work, and vice versa.  If a library
> is upgraded, you don't need to upgrade the packages that depend on it,
> just recompile if necessary.

I did find one instance where this is not true. At one point when
upgrading qt on my system, emerging any kde app failed. I need to
recompile kdelibs to be able to compile a kde app

I filed a bug report about it, but someone said portage doesn't support
automatically making kdelibs recompile after upgrading qt.

Would this be a possible feature of portage-ng, re-emerging an app when
needed?

Tom


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