>>>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> 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. That doesn't help. Imagine there is cat/foo-1 and the minor revision is bumped. The new ebuild is cat/foo-1-r0.1 then, and PF changes even if the minor revision is ignored (namely, from foo-1 to foo-1-r0). > 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. The PM could just update the VDB whenever it detects that the metadata of the ebuild has changed (relative to the VDB). You can get that without introducing the additional complication of minor revisions. Ulrich
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