Re: [gentoo-dev] Help needed for maintaining GNOME

[James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 23:46 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 14:41 -0400, Ionen Wolkens wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 02:05:10PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> > > Chewi was also trying to see if portage can be convinced to stage the
> > > same package twice with different USE flags in the same emerge process
> > > in order to solve cyclical USE flag dependencies, but it's not a
> > > guarantee...
> > 
> > I see it more as giving us hope of being able to remove whatever
> > horrible hack we implement eventually, but I think the horrible
> > hack will have to exist in the interim.
> 
> Yes, the glib/gobject-introspection conflict was my main test case. It was an
> interesting one because it also involved some blockers. I pushed my half baked
> idea up to GitHub in the hope that Zac or someone could maybe take it and
> actually make it work properly. The results so far have shown that it at least
> seems feasible. Once complete, we could get it out the door quite quickly.
> 
> As for GNOME, I'm afraid I don't use it, but I do recognise the importance
> these packages have even on my KDE system, so I am very grateful for Leio's
> hard work.

Sorry, meant to include a link to that.
https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/1385

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