> my take on linux distros being annoyed by their own policies is that perhaps they should change the policy. in this case, perhaps they should pretend uv-build updates once a month or something.
Thing is, that apparently won't work. From [0], with some more discussion starting at [1]
> > I don’t understand why Gentoo needs to rebuild every single release of uv-build.
> Because if you don't pin a version of uv-build in your project, that means "use the latest version available". Gentoo can't second guess you--even if it were able to verify somehow that the new version of uv-build that just got released will end up producing an identical wheel for your project as the previous version, without actually using the new version of uv-build.
Thing is, that apparently won't work. From [0], with some more discussion starting at [1]
> > I don’t understand why Gentoo needs to rebuild every single release of uv-build.
> Because if you don't pin a version of uv-build in your project, that means "use the latest version available". Gentoo can't second guess you--even if it were able to verify somehow that the new version of uv-build that just got released will end up producing an identical wheel for your project as the previous version, without actually using the new version of uv-build.
[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077466>
[1] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077553>