From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14C0D1382C5 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:32:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53289E0949; Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohas.pair.com (mohas.pair.com [209.68.5.112]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 116EEE0893 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohas.pair.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mohas.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BE77310F for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2020 20:32:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bluering.localnet (ppp118-210-123-17.syd-gls-har-bras38.tpg.internode.on.net [118.210.123.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mohas.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 442C173100 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2020 20:32:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently? Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:32:46 +1000 Message-ID: <11551701.O9o76ZdvQC@bluering> In-Reply-To: <60339a0b-c406-7f42-03b6-6ed9c392b478@gentoo.org> References: <20200620040430.GA31108@waltdnes.org> <3cf8f8d8-2442-dde2-a703-f6ab4b76beb2@gmail.com> <60339a0b-c406-7f42-03b6-6ed9c392b478@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="nextPart5373024.DvuYhMxLoT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e2e8658-4901-4b97-b36b-b1c15451d141 X-Archives-Hash: 3a89a0591a6a2bdef34a36fb9724c7a4 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --nextPart5373024.DvuYhMxLoT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Sunday, June 21, 2020 9:25:38 A.M. AEST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 2020-06-20 19:06, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I understand the dependencies problem that they were trying to solve, > > but I don't think the way it was implemented is a great one. > > This isn't a fundamental problem, it's your package manager being dumb. > File a bug; I can think of several band-aids for this, like adding a > flag to emerge that makes it prefer non-acct-* packages and then adding > that flag to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS. Or do a quick check to see if any of the packages are dependencies of one of the other packages, and prefer the one highest on the ladder. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro --nextPart5373024.DvuYhMxLoT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

On Sunday, June 21, 2020 9:25:38 A.M. AEST Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> On 2020-06-20 19:06, Daniel Frey wrote:

> > I understand the dependencies problem that they were trying to solve,

> > but I don't think the way it was implemented is a great one.

> This isn't a fundamental problem, it's your package manager being dumb.

> File a bug; I can think of several band-aids for this, like adding a

> flag to emerge that makes it prefer non-acct-* packages and then adding

> that flag to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.

Or do a quick check to see if any of the packages are dependencies of one of the other packages, and prefer the one highest on the ladder.

Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/

Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first:

http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

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