On 2026-04-20 13:10:13, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > I wonder if build infra needs to be updated to support automated > rebuilds when a reverse dependency is updated. My understanding is > that FreeBSD ports, Nix, and OBS already support this.
On its own this isn't sufficient because many packages pin their dependencies to specific versions or git commits. This causes a cascade of problems: * Most dependencies can't be packaged separately, because eventually two applications will require two different versions of the same library, not to mention the labor involved. * You can try to loosen the dependency constraints yourself, but with everyone else bundling, no one cares about API/ABI stability and breakage is likely. * OTOH with dependencies left bundled and pinned to specific versions, rebuilding does nothing except change mtimes.
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