On 02/26/2018 11:25 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Of course, the real solution is revbumps whenever necessary, but > getting devs to do that seems to be impossible, as everybody wants to > assume that dynamic deps work. >
We don't even need revbumps here. I'm sure there's a great historical reason to explicitly list the latest stable version of automake in the eclass and then add it to DEPEND, but today DEPEND="sys-devel/automake" would work just fine and wouldn't require a thousand packages to get revisions whenever a new automake is released. If any particular package needs a special version of it, there's always WANT_AUTOMAKE.
