Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> Other problems appear, though. Documentation is installed in a ${PF}
> subdir, so install locations actually do change when updating the
> minor revision.Yes, the minor revisions should not be exported into the variables of ebuild.sh. I had forgotten this. > Also some method for updating binary packages would be needed. I already mentioned that. But even if this is not implemented, this is only a minor issue. > All in all, I'm not convinced if the cure wouldn't be worse than the > disease here. The disease is making the distribution almost useless or having broken dependencies. > It would introduce another level of complexity, in order > to avoid a few rebuilds. It seems you never counted the number of silent modifications to the tree: Just compare the number of changed packages in metadata/ with the number of packages shown by eix-sync... I would guess it means roughly that you have to recompile your whole installation once a week, 95% of the rebuilds being due to not fixing the package manager to work properly with dynamic deps. Actually, I still think that implementing dynamic deps correctly would be better, but minor revisions do not exclude this and are probably simpler to implement.
