From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing systemd units with gx86 packages
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:35:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110424213515.GB24011@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110424093630.6794a5cd@pomiocik.lan>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 947 bytes --]
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:36:30AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Fellow devs,
>
> I've started working on bringing systemd to Gentoo [1] lately,
> and I think it is important to raise the aspect of systemd unit
> inclusion in various packages in gx86 ASAP.
>
> The number of packages coming with systemd units is growing rapidly
> recently, and that especially applies to freedesktop packages.
> One side effect of that is that these packages treat systemd
> as an automagic dependency, installing systemd units whenever its
> pkgconfig file is installed. I already opened two bugs on that [2,3]
> but there would be much more...
I think the better way to handle this will be to patch the build systems
to not make this an automagic dependency and send those patches
upstream.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/automagic.xml
I'm not a member of qa, but I agree with this position on automagic
dependencies.
William
[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-24 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-24 7:36 [gentoo-dev] Installing systemd units with gx86 packages Michał Górny
2011-04-24 21:35 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2011-04-24 21:55 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-04-24 22:11 ` William Hubbs
2011-04-25 7:37 ` Michał Górny
2011-04-24 22:29 ` William Hubbs
2011-04-25 7:30 ` Michał Górny
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20110424213515.GB24011@linux1 \
--to=williamh@gentoo.org \
--cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox