Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-25 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 25. September 2017, 02:33:13 CEST schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 2:51 PM, John Blinka wrote: > >> Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. > > > > I imagine that it is sanctioned, otherwise why would there be a > > --changed-deps flag to emerge? Does s

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Monday, 25 September 2017 4:51:22 AM AEST John Blinka wrote: > > Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. > > I imagine that it is sanctioned, otherwise why would there be a > --changed-deps flag to emerge? Does seem dirty. Glad you asked the > question. Would love to learn w

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 2:51 PM, John Blinka wrote: > >> Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. > > I imagine that it is sanctioned, otherwise why would there be a > --changed-deps flag to emerge? Does seem dirty. Glad you asked the > question. Would love to learn why this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:37:53 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. If the change doesn't affect the installed code, it is encouraged to avoid unnecessary rebuilding. For example, a new version of LibreOffice or Chromium depends on libfoo, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-24 Thread John Blinka
> > > Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. I imagine that it is sanctioned, otherwise why would there be a --changed-deps flag to emerge? Does seem dirty. Glad you asked the question. Would love to learn why this is allowed. In my experience, it happens quite often. John

[gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I think this is the first time a package tried to play this trick on me: --- /var/db/pkg/dev-libs/qcustomplot-1.3.2/qcustomplot-1.3.2.ebuild 2017-05-21 13:38:15.482740587 -0700 +++ /usr/portage/dev-libs/qcustomplot/qcustomplot-1.3.2.ebuild 2017-09-22 19:27:30.0 -0700 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@