El lun, 21-07-2014 a las 20:55 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh escribió: > 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. >
Maybe this could be solved by having two kinds of revisions: - One would rebuild all as usually (for example, -r1...) - The other one would only regenerate VDB and wouldn't change the installed files (for example, -r1.1) But I am not sure if it could be viable from a "technical" point of view :(
