On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:53:04 +0200
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Revision must be bumped when the on-disk files installed by the
> ebuild are changed. 
> Nothing about dependencies.
> 
> This has been policy for a LONG time, and we're not going to change
> it overnight just because you protest.

Policy used to be that you'd do a revbump when you wanted users to
reinstall stuff, and you wouldn't otherwise. The only complication is
that sometimes you want users to reinstall stuff so that there's
accurate dependency information available, rather than because
something has changed.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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