On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:01:08 -0800 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Please review. > > Title: Portage Dynamic Deps > Author: Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> > Posted: 2018-01-28 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > Display-If-Installed: <sys-apps/portage-2.3.20 > > Beginning with Portage 2.3.20, the previous default --dynamic-deps=y > setting has changed to --dynamic-deps=n. Due to this change, some > users may experience emerge dependency calculation failures triggered > by installed packages that have outdated dependencies. In order to > avoid problems of this nature, use the emerge --changed-deps=y option > with your next deep @world update. What's the rationale behind this ? What I mean is: while '--dynamic-deps=n --changed-deps=n' is the technically correct behavior, this just seems like throwing unbearable dep calculation failure messages at users' faces while we could default to '--dynamic-deps=n --changed-deps=y' and get the already policy-mandated behavior of 'force a rebuild when you change deps'.
