On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 22:56 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Yes, it does. I'm not sure if it leads anywhere, though. Dynamic deps > are a pipe dream. You can't implement them properly, so we're using > half-working implementation as an excuse to be lazy.
Why not adapt the updates mechanism for modifying rdepends? Perhaps something like rdepends-add foo-bar/blah-3.14 "wombat? ( >=dev-libs/wombat-1.0 )" This would give the package manager all the benefits of static dep resolution while allowing us to dynamically make simple changes (like adding a missing dependency to an ebuild) without forcing users to rebuild the package.
