On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:47:33 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Based on the above I do expect the reference implementation would also > need to change. I expect, for instance, that the PM's > metadata-handling would need to occur as normal even though none of > the package's phase functions would run, that is, *DEPEND > (realistically RDEPEND as that should be the only one affected here, > maybe PDEPEND too) and USE/PKGUSE would get updated. Since portage > would not be re-emerging the package from the tree the original ebuild > would remain. Yes, unless I'm missing something that's the intent. I will re-read and update the GLEP a bit sometime this week. > I expect, as a corollary to this, that a rebuild would be necessary if > (on-disk-IUSE_RUNTIME xor in-ebuild-IUSE_RUNTIME) was non-empty > (--newuse) or resulted in any flags that are in USE > (--reinstall=changed-use). IMO this would be necessary to ensure the > local ebuild copy and all related metadata for it gets updated in vdb. I think that's a common package manager logic and it's out of scope of the GLEP. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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