On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Alex Alexander <wi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> 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 >> > > Actually, Portage normally handles this situation gracefully by using > the dependencies from the portage tree instead of vdb. However, in the > case of a slot-operator dep, it always uses vdb. > > See bug 477544. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477544 >
Moreover, a slot operator dep on Qt libraries is pointless. Please remove the '='. Thanks, Davide
