On 03/02/2017 02:05 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> >> This is why we can't have nice things. > > For those that are interested, I'm planning to to make --with-bdeps > automatically enabled when possible: >
I agree with this ^ but I don't think portage should rebuild for DEPEND at all. It creates one more dangerous "it works in portage!" situation that will plague users of other package managers. (I'm not saying it couldn't be useful, but it should go in the next EAPI if we're gonna do it.)