From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:28:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <504A58F8.8010003@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120907211436.38c16738@googlemail.com>
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On 07/09/12 04:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:08:53 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius
> <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Bringing it back to the issue it's solving:
>
>> Afaict, for migration:
>
>> - - DEPEND changes to HDEPEND
>
> If we're going by Chromium, AFAICS they're only making this change
> when they find they actually need it to get the resolver to give
> "the right answer", and otherwise leaving DEPEND as-is. This
> strikes me as being heavily in Doing It Wrong territory.
>
>> - - the new DEPEND now will be used for things that are
>> *currently* in RDEPEND and DEPEND (so that things will work) but
>> are not actually run-time dependencies. Said atoms will then be
>> removed from RDEPEND (and not be included in the new HDEPEND
>> either) as they aren't really supposed to be there in the first
>> place.
>
> I'm not entirely sure that there are more than a handful of very
> special cases that would be covered by the second point. Can
> anyone provide examples?
>
Bug 263343 , the 'fontconfig' dep for some package i wasn't able to
find easily
Bug 317337 (original HDEPEND proposal) mentions the
x11-proto/xcb-proto dep for libxcb (and i assume anything else
depending on xcb-proto)
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-07 11:45 [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 12:29 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 12:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 14:23 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 14:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 15:02 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 15:07 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 15:16 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 15:25 ` Wulf C. Krueger
2012-09-07 14:50 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-07 14:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 15:46 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-09-07 16:03 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 16:11 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-07 16:28 ` Michael Mol
2012-09-07 16:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 16:40 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2012-09-07 16:47 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 17:40 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-09-07 18:21 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 19:59 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-09-07 20:10 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 20:14 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-11 2:16 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-13 19:18 ` Kent Fredric
2012-09-13 22:17 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-15 11:06 ` Kent Fredric
2012-09-15 20:33 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-15 22:03 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-16 1:20 ` [gentoo-dev] example conversion of gentoo-x86 current deps to unified dependencies Brian Harring
2012-09-16 2:39 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-09-16 7:39 ` Ben de Groot
2012-09-16 13:15 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-18 22:51 ` Matt Turner
2012-09-19 4:22 ` Ben de Groot
2012-09-19 10:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-09-19 13:09 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-09-19 13:16 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-30 22:15 ` Brian Harring
2012-10-01 0:23 ` Duncan
2012-10-02 17:47 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-10-03 4:00 ` Ben de Groot
2012-10-07 14:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2012-09-16 7:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2012-09-16 11:10 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-16 11:21 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-16 11:49 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-16 12:02 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-16 13:38 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-07 16:10 ` [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 16:53 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-07 16:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 17:02 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-07 17:40 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-07 17:58 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-07 18:18 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-07 18:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 18:23 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-07 18:23 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 18:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 18:46 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 18:52 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 19:11 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 19:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 19:21 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 19:25 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 20:07 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 20:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 20:08 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-07 20:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 20:28 ` Ian Stakenvicius [this message]
2012-09-07 20:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-07 19:42 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-09-07 17:31 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-07 16:12 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2012-09-07 16:43 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-07 22:55 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-09-08 6:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-08 13:01 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-09-08 7:27 ` Michał Górny
2012-09-08 1:02 ` Patrick Lauer
2012-09-09 3:32 ` Matt Turner
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