From: Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:05:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB26C3C.8090602@gentoo.org> (raw)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364445
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364401
Basically, there are requests to add packages to RDEPEND in virtual/mda
and virtual/mta that are not in the official tree but in sunrise.
On one side, *DEPENDing on a package outside the tree doesn't seem
right. Additionally, keeping track of all the overlays and their
package versions, USE flags and flag changes are potentially too much to
track. We will be making changes to a virtual package without testing
whether it works.
On the other hand, we are making life (unneccesarily?) difficult for
overlay users by not incorporating the requested changes to the official
tree.
Comments on how to proceed? Is it OK for a virtual to list a package
which is in an overlay in RDEPEND?
--
Eray Aslan
Developer, Gentoo Linux eras <at> gentoo.org
next reply other threads:[~2011-04-23 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-23 6:05 Eray Aslan [this message]
2011-04-23 10:28 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:15 ` Zac Medico
2011-04-23 13:25 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 13:28 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 13:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 14:47 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 14:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 15:50 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-23 16:02 ` [gentoo-dev] reconciling new-style virtuals with overlays, was: RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2011-04-23 12:01 ` Nathan Phillip Brink
2011-04-23 12:07 ` Thomas Sachau
2011-04-23 12:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 13:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-23 15:24 ` Zac Medico
2011-04-24 4:57 ` Eray Aslan
2011-04-24 5:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-04-24 6:42 ` Eray Aslan
2011-04-24 20:35 ` William Hubbs
2011-04-23 11:03 ` William Hubbs
2011-04-23 13:07 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-04-23 11:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2011-04-23 11:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2011-04-23 11:59 ` Thomas Sachau
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