Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEPEND mismatches

[Michael Cummings]

Are we forbidden from DEPEND=RDEPEND...? I only ask because 90% of the 
dev-perl portions would fall into that category - if it's an rdepend, it can 
be a depend as well (technically you can build without most of the underlying 
rdepends, but you will get warnings from perl that prereqs weren't met). And 
if so, which is preferred - globbing the list in rdepend and having 
depend=rdepend, or globbing it in depend and having rdepend=depend? Thanks :)

~M

(i'm old, humor me)


On Tuesday 05 July 2005 08:00 pm, Sven Wegener wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Short explanation for the subject: A *DEPEND mismatch is when a package
> is listed in DEPEND, but missing in RDEPEND and vice versa. I have a
> list of ebuilds at http://dev.gentoo.org/~swegener/qa/depend-mismatches
> that contain such mismatches. I've already whitelisted packages like
> automake and autoconf, that are safe to be only in DEPEND. And I also
> whitelisted packages like emul-linux-x86-baselibs for being
> RDEPEND-only. Pure meta packages like gnome-base/gnome or kde-base/kde
> have everything whitelisted for RDEPEND and everything blacklisted for
> DEPEND. Additional blacklistings include virtual/modutils for DEPEND.
>
> This check is important, because when merging binary packages portage
> will only install RDEPEND and when building stages (via ROOT support)
> DEPEND will go to / and RDEPEND will got to the specified ROOT. I want
> to clean *DEPEND up, so that we have sane dependencies. Currently, for
> normal merging, portage forces both DEPEND and RDEPEND to be installed,
> even after the merging is complete. This might or will change in the
> future and break packages that have these mismatches.
>
> I want developers to take a look at the list and see if packages they
> maintain are listed. I'm aware that the list is quite large and still
> contains a lot of false positives. I can whitelist packages for DEPEND
> or RDEPEND either general, based on eclass usage or for a specific
> package. If you are sure that your package has a safe mismatch, I can
> add it to the whitelist. But please one after the other, this is just an
> initial test.
>
> Cheers,
> Sven

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