From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About adding "systemd" to profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/use.stable.mask
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:43:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1361717011.20067.45.camel@belkin4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_=15VW+Msm9vjPTme9v=mrWLqM_X08agQ=+aTstUx7DFA@mail.gmail.com>
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El dom, 24-02-2013 a las 09:35 -0500, Rich Freeman escribió:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I would like to ask about adding "systemd" USE flag to use.stable.mask
> > to let us stop needing to revbump packages with optional systemd support
> > when stabilizing them.
> >
> > Are you ok with that?
>
> Am I interpreting the impacts of this correctly? I believe this would
> mean that if you ran systemd on an otherwise-stable system (that is,
> only systemd and possibly udev are in package.keywords) then you won't
> get systemd support in any of your other packages, even if it is
> available in a stable version of that package? My only VM running
> systemd just happens to be in that configuration, but I'm willing to
> admit that I'm a bit of an edge case. :)
>
> Why exactly do we need to revbump packages with optional systemd
> support when stabilizing them in the first place? ~arch users would
> already have systemd support compiled if they use it, and stable users
> would get it when it is stabilized.
>
> I freely admit that there might be some nuance that I'm simply not
> getting here...
>
> Rich
>
>
We need to revbump it because we cannot mark as stable a package that
would pull a testing package when enabling a USE flag.
Isn't there any way to unmask systemd USE flag on your local setup
(running testing systemd)?
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-24 14:23 [gentoo-dev] About adding "systemd" to profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/use.stable.mask Pacho Ramos
2013-02-24 14:35 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-24 14:43 ` Pacho Ramos [this message]
2013-02-24 15:22 ` Rich Freeman
2013-02-24 15:07 ` Michał Górny
2013-02-24 15:06 ` Michał Górny
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