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

[Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>]

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Am 23.04.2011 13:02, schrieb Zac Medico:
> On 04/22/2011 11:05 PM, Eray Aslan wrote:
>> On the other hand, we are making life (unneccesarily?) difficult for
>> overlay users by not incorporating the requested changes to the official
>> tree.
> 
> I don't imagine it's that much work to maintain a fork of the virtual.
> It's just an inconvenience for users since the version from the overlay
> might become temporarily outdated and cause problems with dependency
> resolution.

It may be no issue as long as the virtual does not change that much or as long as not more than 1
overlay forks the virtual. But as already written in Bugzilla, you create an issue for users, if you
have 2 overlays added, which both provide the package. Simple example, which i presented in Bugzilla:

If e.g. kde and sunrise overlay both provide an mta, they would both need a fork of virtual/mta. Now
one of those forks will be preferred and used, e.g. the kde one. This means, that you cannot install
the mta from sunrise to satisfy the virtual without additional manual work. The only way to solve
this properly without asking the user to manually adjust things is to just add all mtas from
overlays (maybe restricted to dev-controlled or -managed overlays) to virtual/mta in the main tree.


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Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer


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