Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Proposal 3a might be: Anytime an RDEPEND in an eclass is changed, the > eclass must be revisioned unless all ebuilds in the gentoo repository > will continue to work correctly with the old RDEPEND. > Proposal 4a might be: Anytime an RDEPEND in an eclass is changed, all > ebuilds that inherit the eclass in the gentoo repository must be > revisioned if they will not continue to work correctly with the old > RDEPEND.
Adding an || alternative should be included here: The installed package would continue to work without that alternative, but without a revbump the user is not able to see that he might possibly drop a package.
