From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F3E13877A for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D86BE0BBF; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:50:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f44.google.com (mail-qg0-f44.google.com [209.85.192.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B83FE0A80 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id e89so7684381qgf.31 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:50:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=3eG7sAs5qWS1/E4ueNsRrqXKVNPoY+gABYRQ/2uHbvk=; b=yLSFL3ItfR3YNeIRujdynNzAuWwtBuPYXJElwj6zzHJ0CIO8pJX25CZv9wl86U6Q3P G/fgIStXg6aXknxg8KwI8oVhrXp/Oaq49Pi2h/oQ25fTRaIf8JURsJ2pN5C8uxwyOa/o XTEds9UwXmhoKay8Nlx6KklX24CUNbRQBIYbraXPFmQAsbMcOSbv/6KG4/9p+GbJh079 ugZQcd4jUL5o2cwVsJaKWYHGe1dYO0B7DFut2TACWetTq1tIj/ywzmoPk09FVjgZxam2 p3cI2GKAcABY4R1jNDafQF4vMshynEdL+wCCcVEpd0nJuPzcF5YXNMSREjV38yr5nCxe 2vcQ== 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 X-Received: by 10.140.105.163 with SMTP id c32mr52409480qgf.85.1406497810266; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.44.34 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:50:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <53CD6BED.10603@gentoo.org> <53CD8BBA.2010605@gentoo.org> <53D5072E.3030305@gentoo.org> <20140727222429.3febdefa@pomiot.lan> <20140727205113.9578.qmail@stuge.se> <20140727215642.3bbd0826@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:50:10 +1200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1139bcd45bc2ee04ff33caf0 X-Archives-Salt: 9e1f72ed-a441-4cb3-9482-079212d0c892 X-Archives-Hash: 3fcfe5a7610d82f6c5152943418c8e10 --001a1139bcd45bc2ee04ff33caf0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 28 July 2014 09:34, Rich Freeman wrote: > and if it doesn't work for them, > they'll sync in the updates one way or another (using an overlay if > necessary). > However, in the case the package gets removed from tree, an updates based approach would allow the dependencies to be cleaned up long after the package itself is gone. And this proves useful, because one of the questions people tend to ask ( or should ) when experiencing problems is "did you sync lately". If they did sync lately, our best attempts at fixing their bug is employed. -- Kent *KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL --001a1139bcd45bc2ee04ff33caf0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 28 July 2014 09:34, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:=
and if it doesn&#= 39;t work for them,
they'll sync in the updates one way or another (using an overlay if
necessary).

Ho= wever, in the case the package gets removed from tree, an updates based app= roach would allow the dependencies to be cleaned up long after the package = itself is gone.

And this proves useful, because one of= the questions people tend to ask ( or should ) when experiencing problems = is "did you sync lately". If they did sync lately, our best attem= pts at fixing their bug is employed.


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