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On 06/16/2012 06:59 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> This was noticed recently when getting: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420569 |
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> Also hit this problem today while trying to bump bluez and noticed we |
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> are using elog messages to tell people to manually install |
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> net-dialup/ppp if they want ppp working with bluez. |
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> I am unsure about the disadvantages of simply using, for example, "ppp" |
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> USE flag to do that. One important disadvantage of current "elog message |
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> way" is that: |
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> 1. We rely in people reading the message to get package working ok. |
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> 2. If user emerges ppp, it will be recorded in world file and, then, if |
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> in the future he removes bluez, emerge --depclean want clean no longer |
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> needed ppp and then, people end up with a lot of packages they needed to |
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> manually emerge some year but that they problem no longer need at all. |
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> Thanks for your thoughts |
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why not get this finally entirely out of the way: |
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suggested/recommended dependencies support, like SDEPEND, |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/327701 |
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as in, threat them as RDEPEND if user has the option to pull them in |
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enabled, otherwise print an uniformed postinst message |
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as a bonus, this solution would also allow USE dependencies to work and |
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would replace some cases of 'has_version foo/bar[use]' |
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- Samuli |
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