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On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 04:02:24AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 04/22/2011 11:05 PM, Eray Aslan wrote: |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364445 |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364401 |
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> > |
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> > Basically, there are requests to add packages to RDEPEND in virtual/mda |
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> > and virtual/mta that are not in the official tree but in sunrise. |
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> > |
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> > On one side, *DEPENDing on a package outside the tree doesn't seem |
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> > right. Additionally, keeping track of all the overlays and their |
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> > package versions, USE flags and flag changes are potentially too much to |
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> > track. We will be making changes to a virtual package without testing |
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> > whether it works. |
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> I would assume that it's the overlay maintainers' responsibility to test |
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> and report any problems. Any such problems would should affect the |
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> overlay users, so it shouldn't cause any regression for users who don't |
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> choose to use the overlay. |
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> > On the other hand, we are making life (unneccesarily?) difficult for |
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> > overlay users by not incorporating the requested changes to the official |
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> > tree. |
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> I don't imagine it's that much work to maintain a fork of the virtual. |
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> It's just an inconvenience for users since the version from the overlay |
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> might become temporarily outdated and cause problems with dependency |
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> resolution. |
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I would prefer that the virtual maintenance still happen in the main |
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tree whenever possible. In this case, the virtual's maintainer seems |
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willing to add the package atoms to the virtual -- the only concern |
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was whether or not it was allowed to *DEPEND on atoms known not to be |
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in gentoo-x86. So the answers I've read all add up to a "yes, go |
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ahead". |
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Encouraging overlays to maintain their own virtual replacements would |
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be encouraging more people who are not familiar with a particular |
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virtual to mess with it in their own repositories. Also, if multiple |
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overlays each need to add a single but different DEPEND to a |
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particular virtual, the user will end up with only one of these |
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virtual overrides. Someone who overrides a virtual in an overlay would |
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thus be expected to take into account other overlays which provide |
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candidates for that virtual. Having overlay maintainers do this would |
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be much more of a mess than letting one person manage the gentoo-x86 |
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virtual and get everything done right once and without duplication of |
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effort. |
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