Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Assuming dynamic dependencies don't exist, another package would still > depend on the USE flag in the vdb; the only way to force that USE flag > dependency to go away is with an unnecessarily rebuilding rev bump, as > without it it would complain that the USE flag doesn't exist.
Yes, this is a typical example: After every adding or removing of a python version (I am not speaking about *installed* versions) with the new policy every package depending on some python needs to be bumped. This demonstrates very well what I said: With the new policy you would have to recompile your whole system about once a week. I rather prefer to have a system which perhaps very rarely forces me to use revdep-rebuild (which cannot be omitted anyway, as shown in my previous posting) than to have a permanently outdated system, without having any possibility to know what *really* needs to be updated or is only update because of the broken "static deps" idea.
