-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 05/12/12 10:06 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:35:52 -0500 Ian Stakenvicius > <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> That said, it is recommended that you revbump for EAPI5; it is >> not strictly necessary, but without the revbump users with that >> version already installed will not receive the benefits of the >> sub-slot/slot-operator, since the sub-slot has to be written to >> the vdb for both the package and all rdeps with slot-operator >> atoms. > > If subslots are involved, a revbump is necessary when switching to > EAPI 5. >
Only if you want existing users to get the update. Otherwise the subslot will just be ignored until that package is rebuilt locally. If no other changes occur in the ebuild, this is not necessarily a bad thing, given that slot-operator rebuilds are not -strictly- necessary (ie the lack of them is not a bug and will not cause a failure -- it is perfectly valid for an EAPI5 ebuild to have a slot-operator dep on an EAPI4 dependency, for instance--useless, but still valid. the case here is identical to that). New emerges of the package would still immediately receive the benefits of the EAPI5 sub-slot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlC/dA8ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDh4gEAj3S8jHGSS/3qASCpdFgGa7Bl JzEFXF9QvXKVzD/ZnEkA/0lvj1Ao4/MgcF7kYv22+1GeTCdvtpoWerV6WLdooyNW =LaQQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
