* Jonathan S. Shapiro:

> Wait. *Why* is recompilation of reverse dependencies such a pain? Is it
> because each developer has to manage it independently?

That's one aspect, yes.

But there is a class of users who want documentation for *any* change.
I'm not sure how they will react to, say, a TLS library update that
comes with the library update *and* most packages in the distribution
which have been "rebuilt due to a change in dependencies".

There's also an expectation that you only have to do detailed QA on
changed components—which is, of course, an unsafe assumption, just
like updating a DSO written in C without recompiling all reverse
dependencies.

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