On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:15:41 +0200 Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:06:07 +0200 > Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 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) > > Or the package manager looks at changed in *DEPEND between the repo > and vdb and resolves those.
...assuming that the ebuild hasn't been removed, and that it can be associated correctly when overlays are involved, and that the change wasn't a change where a saved pkg_prerm uses the old dependency, not the new one, or all the other ways this breaks. You need to think your cunning plan the whole way through. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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