From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-dev+bounces-42549-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1OuVfA-0000UU-Da for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:23:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE5B7E0A97; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173001pub.verizon.net (vms173001pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A91AAE087F for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([unknown] [96.245.231.248]) by vms173001.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0L8L00LFUKHYDXKH@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:22:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (rich.homedns.org [192.168.0.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED2A71759B79 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:22:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4C8BD705.8070802@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:22:45 -0400 From: Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100727 Thunderbird/3.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Closing bugs References: <4C8BCFCC.5010402@gentoo.org> <20100911200445.3122b786@snowcone> In-reply-to: <20100911200445.3122b786@snowcone> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 28bfb352-e34e-4785-9430-3274f72cbc0d X-Archives-Hash: 35e589e01aa54a2b26e06e5dc642c687 On 09/11/2010 03:04 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Or does the problem only occur if you mix keywords and ignore > dependencies? > I think that if a package doesn't work in a mixed environment, that points to a likely dependency problem. Sooner or later there is a good chance it will bite somebody. Personally, I try to keep package dependencies correct. If a package in unstable needs a library version in unstable, I depend on that version - not on the library itself. Then we won't get burned in six months when I forget all about this or am not around and things start going stable in the wrong order. Sure, if the issue is something really exotic maybe we should just say "don't do that," but usually there is a better fix. Personally I welcome these kinds of bugs, as they're the easiest way to uncover non-obvious dependency issues that might otherwise make their way into stable. Maybe we can't fix them all, but we ought not to just dismiss them out of hand. I certainly wouldn't want to see the bug-wranglers screening for them, for instance. Rich