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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>

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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


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  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

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