Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree

[Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 14:34 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me
>>> a lot of headaches (along with localizations).
>>> For reference, please have a look here: http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=105
>>>       
>> I'm another distro builder that uses the Gentoo framework. I can only
>> agree. I had to roll my own binary package format and after a short
>> while I had to do the dependencies myself and just ignore RDEPEND since
>> it was close to useless.
>>     
>
> I'm a distro builder, too, and I haven't been hitting any of these
> problems.  Would you care to point out the actual problems, or will the
> "close to useless" comment be our only indication of the perceived
> problems?
>   
Regarding the RDPEND's, there is nothing in the framework protecting the 
RDEPENDS from be wrong. If its wrong, package still compiles and 
installs and (almost) everyone is happy. It pulls in unnecessary stuff 
but who cares? Disk space is cheap.

So since I build a distro where size does matter (uclibc) I realised 
that even if I submit bugs for broken RDEPEND, there will never be an 
end to those bug reports. Looking at this thread, it seems i was right.

That doesn't mean i dont submit bugreports. I do and I very often submit 
a patch. But there is a limit on how much you can fix in upstream before 
you need to go other ways. (That applies to fixing package splitting 
upstream as well btw...)

-nc
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