Re: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays?

[Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>]

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Am 23.04.2011 08:05, schrieb Eray Aslan:
> 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.

"Doesnt seem right" sounds like a feeling, but is no real argument for me.

Afaik you dont need to track package versions, USE flags or flag changes at all for those requested
additions, so i dont see any potential additional work in the first place. If an overlay package
changes and requires an adjustment in the virtual, the overlay maintainer has to track it and has to
request the changes, not much to do on the virtual maintainer side. And since there always is at
least one choice in the main tree, it would not even harm other people, if the overlay package is
broken at any time.

> 
> 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?
> 


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Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer


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