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 1QDbdS-0000iQ-UF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:08:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF4D91C0DF; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tommyserver.de (tommyserver.de [85.14.198.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0EF1C0FB for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.178.22] (p548DBF3F.dip.t-dialin.net [84.141.191.63]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tommyserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D353DC17B for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:07:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4DB2C0F9.3090501@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:07:21 +0200 From: Thomas Sachau 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: Re: [gentoo-dev] RDEPENDing on packages from overlays? References: <4DB26C3C.8090602@gentoo.org> <4DB2B1C0.2050708@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4DB2B1C0.2050708@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=211CA2D4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1BFB73EBD17FC0BA1EDC8678" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: acb000ed74539ac8e312c8af8873fd88 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1BFB73EBD17FC0BA1EDC8678 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 offici= al >> tree. >=20 > 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 might become temporarily outdated and cause problems with dependency 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, wh= ich 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 mea= ns, that you cannot install the mta from sunrise to satisfy the virtual without additional manual wor= k. The only way to solve this properly without asking the user to manually adjust things is to jus= t add all mtas from overlays (maybe restricted to dev-controlled or -managed overlays) to vir= tual/mta in the main tree. --=20 Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer --------------enig1BFB73EBD17FC0BA1EDC8678 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEKAAYFAk2ywP4ACgkQG7kqcTWJkGd4YwQAuDL6ECBrdmzniHTvI0W4ugR2 /MVN0WTFAlbdYrzt5uhPZ8fNw+OlKSs8Q/Ee6Z+g9t7WhWdk9co3zMjZwtr01kon x1nui5DnazYOxiiFFPv3mCKqaUWRCsKyJdXMUf9tzsSufxY7W9KYZasvEzley3OU mer3EzMhTL09ILNHels= =GuCH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1BFB73EBD17FC0BA1EDC8678--