Brian Harring wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:38:59PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > > There is one flaw with this though; packages can provide both > libraries _and_ binaries. Our dependencies don't represent whether > the dep is actual linkage, or just commandline consuming, so (using > the openssl example) any package that invokes openssl via the > commandline to do a few simple chksum ops gets rebuilt, despite the > fact it wasn't affected by linkage change ups. > I like BINCOMPAT proposal but it solves only half of the problem. You assume that all dependent packages cares about binary compatibility. Why not using a BDEPEND var in those dependent packages affected by the BINCOMPAT values of their dependencies?
For instance, I would set the following:
- in net-dialup/ppp ebuild: BINCOMPAT=${PV}
- in net-dialup/pptpd ebuild: BDEPEND="net-dialup/ppp"
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