On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:05:48AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364445
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364401
> 
> Basically, there are requests to add packages to RDEPEND in virtual/mda
> and virtual/mta that are not in the official tree but in sunrise.
> 
> 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.
> 
> On the other hand, we are making life (unneccesarily?) difficult for
> overlay users by not incorporating the requested changes to the official
> tree.
> 
> Comments on how to proceed?  Is it OK for a virtual to list a package
> which is in an overlay in RDEPEND?
 
 I would say no for the reasons you list above.

 I'm not an overlay user, but I'm thinking that an overlay user might be
 able to get around this by putting the virtual in package.provided.

William