From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:08:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303556888.2367.22.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB26C3C.8090602@gentoo.org>
Il giorno sab, 23/04/2011 alle 09.05 +0300, Eray Aslan ha scritto:
>
> On one side, *DEPENDing on a package outside the tree doesn't seem
> right. Additionally, keeping track of all the overlays and their
> package versions, USE flags and flag changes are potentially too much
> to
> track. We will be making changes to a virtual package without testing
> whether it works.
Okay this is tricky.
From one side, we've done this before. Do note: we are _not_ going to
accept forced or non-use-masked dependencies for packages that are not
in tree, but || () dependencies on non-existing packages have been used
before, for instance while Gentoo/FreeBSD was still in its original
development.
On the other hand handling the current new-style virtual mess is enough
of a task without having to bend over backward to overlays.
As long as _somebody_ feels like doing the work, I suppose it's fine.
--
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-23 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-23 6:05 [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Eray Aslan
2011-04-23 10:28 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:15 ` Zac Medico
2011-04-23 13:25 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 13:28 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 13:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 14:47 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 14:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 15:50 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-23 16:02 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2011-04-23 12:01 ` Nathan Phillip Brink
2011-04-23 12:07 ` Thomas Sachau
2011-04-23 12:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 13:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-23 15:24 ` Zac Medico
2011-04-24 4:57 ` Eray Aslan
2011-04-24 5:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-24 6:42 ` Eray Aslan
2011-04-24 20:35 ` William Hubbs
2011-04-23 11:03 ` William Hubbs
2011-04-23 13:07 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:08 ` Diego Elio Pettenò [this message]
2011-04-23 11:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 11:59 ` Thomas Sachau
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