Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-04-08

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 07/04/14 17:49, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:54:43 +0300
> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> You can get me to change mind by writing up a policy that says
>> dynamic deps can't be relied upon, and getting rest of the QA
>> team, perhaps council, on board with it.
> They can't be relied upon: they stop working as soon as you remove an
> ebuild from the tree when the user still has that version installed.
> They also don't work if you make changes to runtime dependencies that
> need a reinstall or upgrade, as has happened with various -config
> utilities.
>

Of course if reinstall or upgrade is required, then revision bump is
issued as normal.
If the version isn't anymore in Portage, then user will be upgrading
into one that is anyway, and
the problem becomes moot.

I'm aware it's not perfect, but it's the best we have.

I'm also aware of Paludis having more issues with it, than Portage,
IIRC, which is really irrelevant since
Portage is the official PM.    No, this is not a flamebait, and I feel
like apologizing to you already, but that's just how I see it.

I'm arguing that working around the PM bug(s) by enforcing "a useless"
rebuilds for everyone, is not the solution.

- Samuli