From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A7913877A for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 254D3E0CE7; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC6C6E0CE2 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:35:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rook (unknown [96.241.16.8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tetromino) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A08B633BDD3 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1405992850.4756.3.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps From: Alexandre Rostovtsev To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:34:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140721225642.56aee8ed@pomiot.lan> References: <53CD6BED.10603@gentoo.org> <201407212153.04605.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <20140721225642.56aee8ed@pomiot.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.4 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e2a08ec-0a87-4b38-911c-88ffacd01187 X-Archives-Hash: 6dbc5d66fd3d57e46f8e6047ce2f05bc On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 22:56 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Yes, it does. I'm not sure if it leads anywhere, though. Dynamic deps > are a pipe dream. You can't implement them properly, so we're using > half-working implementation as an excuse to be lazy. Why not adapt the updates mechanism for modifying rdepends? Perhaps something like rdepends-add foo-bar/blah-3.14 "wombat? ( >=dev-libs/wombat-1.0 )" This would give the package manager all the benefits of static dep resolution while allowing us to dynamically make simple changes (like adding a missing dependency to an ebuild) without forcing users to rebuild the package.