Hello, Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies.
Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to depend on
dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus]
however, qtgui lost the dbus useflag, so the dependency was changed to
dev-qt/qtgui:4=[dbus(+)]
without revbumping the transmission ebuild. [0]
Portage fails to notice this when resolving dependencies if the package was
installed prior to the change, resulting in errors like the following:
(dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts
with dev-qt/qtgui:4/4=[dbus] required by
(net-p2p/transmission-2.80::gentoo, installed)
which, I imagine, could be very frustrating for a user who doesn't mess
with the internals of Gentoo often.
You might think that such a revbump is overkill, but in reality the user will
have to re-emerge the package anyway in order to get rid of the error, so there
is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles these
changes.
[0]
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Thanks,
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