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 ) id 1QDVzW-0005XW-O4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:06:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E39A51C047; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.caf.com.tr (mail.caf.com.tr [88.250.130.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387A31C008 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mta.caf.com.tr [10.0.2.208]) by mail.caf.com.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B0B8A671 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:05:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at caf.com.tr Received: from mail.caf.com.tr ([10.0.2.205]) by localhost (check.caf.com.tr [10.0.2.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id wqclMaM_zyaq for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:05:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.244] (unknown [217.131.180.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.caf.com.tr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2C3A3838E4 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:05:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DB26C3C.8090602@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:05:48 +0300 From: Eray Aslan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail 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: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 638e612675acbd39fc87b7d2e3ed50a7 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D364445 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D364401 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? --=20 Eray Aslan Developer, Gentoo Linux eras gentoo.org