Bug 645550 – [Tracker] Breakage introduced by sys-apps/portage-2.3.20 --dynamic-deps=n default

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Quality Assurance

[Description Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2018-01-24 12:20:09 UTC]

sys-apps/portage-2.3.20 disabled dynamic dependencies by default without any plan to address the resulting fallout.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2018-01-24 20:42:15 UTC]

We might ask the council to review this again, now that the breakage is surfacing.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2018-01-25 17:13:53 UTC]

Wouldn't be better to add --changed-deps=y to defaults too? If --changed-deps=y would be able to also show a warning asking people to report a bug when it needs to work it would be even ideal as things wouldn't break but we would still get reports to fix things :)

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2018-01-26 04:36:35 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #2)
> Wouldn't be better to add --changed-deps=y to defaults too? If
> --changed-deps=y would be able to also show a warning asking people to
> report a bug when it needs to work it would be even ideal as things wouldn't
> break but we would still get reports to fix things :)

Yeah I like this idea. I've filed bug 645780 for this.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2018-01-26 14:03:13 UTC]

Great, thanks! That will likely also prevent potential "danger" issues like unwanted downgrades (like bug 645548) that could end up with other issues in the affected machine

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2018-02-03 03:54:01 UTC]

In portage-2.3.24, --dynamic-deps is default again, see bug 646458.