On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 11:02:14 -0400 > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:18:22 -0400 >> > Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Revbump -- very important in this case, as the slot-operator dep >> >> (iirc) does not take effect to allow sub-slot-triggered until >> >> after a version with the slot-operator has been emerged. >> >> >> >> So we want users to re-emerge packages either at the same time >> >> libpng-1.6 hits the tree, or beforehand so that they will be >> >> triggered for rebuild when libpng-1.6 hits. >> >> >> > >> > >> > so we force two rebuilds instead of one ? >> > >> >> Well, ideally you would do it in conjunction with a version bump >> rather than a revbump. >> >> But failing that, a revbump for an EAPI + dependency change seems like >> the safest option. >> > > or: we can do the conversion in place, tell people to > @preserve-rebuild / revdep-rebuild and get the benefits next time :) >
I'm just not sure how the package managers like an in-place EAPI change. If it works, great.
