From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NnESj-0006er-62 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6545CE1012; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee (smtp-out.neti.ee [194.126.126.38]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF80E0DC8 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:03:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay214.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580346C48518 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:03:37 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at estpak.ee Received: from smtp-out.neti.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (relay214.estpak.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Brp7jYh6dgqb for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:03:35 +0200 (EET) Received: from NETI-Relayhost2.estpak.ee (neti-relayhost2.estpak.ee [88.196.174.199]) by relay214.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046E06C484DA for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:03:35 +0200 (EET) X-SMTP-Auth-NETI-Businessmail: no Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps From: Mart Raudsepp To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1267641936.26170.5.camel@localhost> <201003040756.48943.cla@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-t8SrRn4xy7Q7ngfSEe7P" Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:02:59 +0200 Message-Id: <1267722179.2258.19.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 X-Archives-Salt: ad4266db-c1e9-4734-91c2-28588a89d2a9 X-Archives-Hash: 25e9efd177785dd649c38c28e273498b --=-t8SrRn4xy7Q7ngfSEe7P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On N, 2010-03-04 at 12:50 +0100, Ben de Groot wrote:=20 > 2010/3/4 Dawid W=C4=99gli=C5=84ski : > > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 22:51:10 Ben de Groot wrote: > >> I'm not talking about selectively disabling cups. My proposal is > >> to no longer enable the cups useflag in the base profile. > > > > How is that going to fix circular dependency problem? What will you do = if every > > user add cups to USE in make.conf? Say "we don't support cups turned on= by > > default"? I hope no. Removing this flag from profile will not fix any p= roblem but > > hide it. >=20 > It will fix the "out of the box" circular dependency for people who > switch to a default desktop profile. This is the main problem we > need to solve now. The main problem to solve here is the circular dependency that you yourself introduced as a co-maintainer of poppler, by converting poppler to be monolithic. This from the outside looks like it was done to reduce your maintenance workload in the (possibly accidental) expense of users who are now getting circular dependencies in a fairly common setup. If cups should be enabled in the desktop profile or not is a completely different question. The correct solution here is to fix the core problem that is now happening - not to start removing common desktop needed USE flags from the desktop profiles to delay the correct fix for this circular dependency you guys have introduced for us. > Certain useflag and package combinations > will trigger a circular dep, that is a know occurrence in Gentoo. > But at least with a default configuration things should work out of > the box. For other configurations there are workarounds (in this > case: install gtk+ without cups, or poppler without cairo enabled > first). Circular dependencies shouldn't happen in any situation. I claim there is always a solution to avoid it. A different question is if the cost of the solution is acceptable compared to the problems it causes. I believe an inconvenience for the poppler maintainers is completely justified here for the benefit of users in the form of properly split packages, considering how this affects a majority of desktop users (problem hidden by default or not). =EF=BB=BF I'll later make sure there is a bug for fixing this circular dependency mess properly. I believe the only possible fix is to split poppler back to at least core, bindings and utils, as it seems to be a problem due to poppler-utils requirement by cups. It doesn't need poppler-glib, so utils and bindings being a separate package, as it always was before, would nicely solve it. --=20 Mart Raudsepp Gentoo Developer Mail: leio@gentoo.org Weblog: http://blogs.gentoo.org/leio --=-t8SrRn4xy7Q7ngfSEe7P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkuP58MACgkQkeYb6olFHJeW2wCgpW9Wl5dW84PwA6CGK4Kz+kWZ bX0AoPHkFRqajEMKq5g6VcXX2m0Rq6tC =yWoE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-t8SrRn4xy7Q7ngfSEe7P--