El vie, 25-07-2014 a las 00:06 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: [...] > > 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 :( > > I'm afraid it couldn't. The major problem is not knowing *when* to > migrate metadata, portage usually gets that right. The problem is in > getting the correct output which is often near to impossible. >
But, isn't it something up to developer in that case? I mean, we should have a list of things that deserve that VDB regeneration and, then, make the -r1.1 revbump instead of the major one.
