Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unmasking modular X

[Joshua Jackson <tsunam@gentoo.org>]

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Joshua Jackson wrote:
>> I will have to agree that this change has made it a pain to mark
>> anything
>> stable. I had 4 out of the 6 I did today bail out because of this.
>> I took the
>> simple easy fix and removed the check to stabalize the packages I
>> needed to. I
>> know we have people who want modular X yesterday, but causing
>> trouble for dev's
>> going about business that doesn't involve the modular problems
>> directly is only
>> going to cause resentment and frustration to all the teams involved.
>
> Why is the simple fix not copying over the already fixed
> dependencies in the latest ebuild? It's not as if that's a lot of
> work. That's the intent of this failure -- to avoid flyby commits by
> people when they could just fix the deps (which are already
> available in ~arch) while they're there.
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
In the oldest version of the package (as all these were), I don't see
much point in the change. They will be removed within a fairly short
amount of time. Secondary, you are suggesting that any dev who comes
across a modular x problem to fix it..even if this is a direct
violation of the guidelines set forth in the documentation? I'm
curious as to why you want potentially 200+ dev's to violate it, to
push modular so quickly?
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